Accused by American intelligence services of being responsible of a fake video showing an immigrant claiming to have voted several times in the US presidential electionRussia denied this Saturday, November 2, being at the origin of the recording.
“We have taken note of the statement by the American intelligence services accusing our country of releasing fabricated videos of electoral violations in the United States. We consider these allegations to be unfounded.“, the Russian Embassy in the United States said in a statement published on Telegram and also distributed by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The embassy stressed that Moscow received “no evidence supporting these allegations when communicating with American authorities.” “As President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said, we respect the will of the American people. Any insinuations about Russian machinations are malicious slander,” she added.
Targeted disinformation
The head of elections in the US state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, said in a statement Thursday evening:video purporting to show Haitian immigrant with multiple Georgia ID cards and claiming to have voted multiple times“This is an example of the targeted disinformation that we have seen during this and other elections,” he continued, saying that it was “probably a production of Russian troll farms.
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. According to the text, “the intelligence community concludes that Russian agents of influence fabricated a recent video falsely showing individuals claiming to be from Haiti voting illegally in multiple Georgia counties.”
“This activity on the part of Russia is part of the broader framework of Moscow’s attempts to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the US elections and fuel divisions between Americans,” said these federal agencies. Specifying that they expect these attempts to continue until the vote and “in the following weeks and months.”
In the fake video, a man in a vehicle was seen saying in a monotone voice into the camera: “We are from Haiti. We came to America six months ago, and we already have American citizenship – we vote for Kamala Harris“. Before claiming that he and his friends voted in several counties while showing a series of driver’s licenses.
Georgia’s elections official asked “Elon Musk and the leadership of other social media platforms to remove” the video.
The 20-second clip can still be viewed on
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