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Moscow denies ‘baseless’ claims that Russia is behind fake US election video

Moscow denies ‘baseless’ claims that Russia is behind fake US election video


Moscow:

Moscow on Saturday denied its involvement in fake videos about the US election after US intelligence said Russia was behind a fake video showing a Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted multiple times.

Three U.S. intelligence agencies said in a joint statement Friday that “Russian agents of influence” created the video as part of Moscow’s “broader efforts to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of U.S. elections.”

The statement also says that Russian actors are behind another fake video.

“We drew attention to the statement of the US intelligence services accusing our country of distributing fabricated videos about violations in the US elections. We consider these accusations to be unfounded,” the Russian Embassy in the US said in a statement on Telegram.

In the 20-second clip, a man speaks in stilted, robotic speech: “We are from Haiti. We came to America six months ago, and we already have American citizenship – we vote for Kamala Harris.”

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the swing state’s top elections official, said Friday the video was an example of “targeted disinformation.”

Raffensperger said the “obviously fake” video was likely produced by “Russian troll farms.”

The embassy said Russia received “no evidence of these allegations in its communications with US officials.”

“As President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly emphasized, we respect the will of the American people. All insinuations about “Russian machinations” are malicious slander,” the embassy said in a statement, also published by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

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