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Covert campaigns by governments or state-aligned networks that use fake personas, fabricated media, and propaganda to sway foreign audiences and public opinion.
VisionHeight, an Israeli threat intelligence firm, found hyperlocal websites in at least 14 states that appear written for AI crawlers to read. The firm says Perplexity cited one page as its first source for an answer. It has not named who runs the network.
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OpenAI shut down Russian and Iranian influence operations whose AI-built fake journalists and think tanks got stories into real news outlets. For editors who take outside pitches, a credible byline or institute name proved nothing about whether a real person stood behind it.
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Anthropic says Claude was used to build a commercial Malaysian election-manipulation platform that ran about 1,000 X accounts targeting 222 constituencies. Writing the content now takes prompts instead of staff, so AI vendors share the policing with the social platforms that still carry the posts.
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Recorded Future's Insikt Group says Russia-linked sabotage in Europe rose four-fold from 2023 to 2024 and held at that level in 2025. It expects Russia to escalate in the near term, possibly into a full-scale New Generation Warfare campaign.
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Recorded Future logged three CopyCop impersonations against the US-Armenian Firebird AI data center in a 20-day window, the last of them fabricating an Iranian military case for hitting it.
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