On Wednesday, Microsoft stated that a video showing a woman accusing Kamala Harris of getting her injured 13 years ago in a hit-and-run accident is a Russian aims to win over the voters as the day of US Presidential Election draws close.
“In the run up to the elections, people tend to get more riled up,” Clint Watts, general manager of the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center said.
“There are other sources of information that people may somehow ingest, that they have no knowledge of, or even why they might seek to assess,” Watts added.
The clip which surfaced on socials on 2nd September came from newly set KBSF-TV news channel in San Francisco. The newsgroup that contained filings from abundant news sites, which it later ran out of business with, did so.
Apparently from the analysis of big technology company, even when there are drastic improvements regarding the political environment, there are centres that are attached to the enemies of America continue to rake their resources on the American political sphere with approaching election cycles, mostly doing so by nefarious means.
Also, they broaden the scope of how the Russian retargeting provision’s efforts against pro-Ukrainian policies in the US evolve into more strident assaults on the Democratic presidential candidate.
“Russian influence operations at first found it difficult to redirect operations that were directing towards democracy promotion campaigns after President Biden quit the race for the elections of US president held 2024’ a Microsoft blog said.
“In late August, Sorm-1516, a prolific Russian anti-Ukraine actor switched from the usual videos extolling the Kremlin to more exotic pursuits: creating conspiracy theories with Vice President Harris and Governor Walz at the center,” it added.
Two workers from the RT Russia Today media channel were charged earlier this month with the offense of money laundering by the Us Justice Department, which claimed that they were involved in employing the services of an American company to create web content designed at manipulating the elections.”
