Suspicions confirmed by the Federal Police (FBI), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in a joint press release on Friday.
“The intelligence community concludes that Russian agents of influence fabricated a recent video falsely showing individuals claiming to be from Haiti and voting illegally in multiple Georgia counties,” according to the text.
“This activity on the part of Russia is part of a broader framework of attempts by Moscow to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of American elections and to fuel divisions among Americans,” affirm these federal agencies. They specify that they expect these attempts to continue until the vote and “in the following weeks and months”.
In his statement, the Georgia elections official asked “Elon Musk and the management of other social media platforms to remove” the video. But the 20-second clip can still be viewed on
“We checked the voter rolls. There is no match. The IDs are fake and there is no way that the people in the video voted in Georgia using those IDs,” explained to AFP Mike Hassinger, spokesperson for state authorities.
