Researchers at several cybersecurity firms have discovered influence campaigns propelled by Russian bots and trolls that are targeting the upcoming 2022 midterms, the New York Times reported today.
The reporting offers yet another look at how Russian disinformation networks are targeting midterms races, days after social media analysis firm Graphika published a report that Russia-linked actors were targeting close Senate and gubernatorial races by disseminating racist and inflammatory political cartoons by an artist identified as “Schmitz,"While done on a smaller scale than in 2016, these targeted campaigns have similar goals of fomenting uncertainty around the election and stirring...
According to researchers, a new theme that has emerged among these disinformation campaigns is that the U.S. "is wasting money by supporting Ukraine in its resistance to the Russian invasion," per the TimesOne such campaign consisted of accounts posing as Americans and targeted Democratic candidates in highly contested races across various states.Internet Research Agency
, which helped spread disinformation in the 2016 and 2020 elections, the Boston-based cybersecurity firm Recorded Future told the Times. Recorded Future's researchers uncovered numerous accounts that had previously been associated with the Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens, a right-wing news outlet tied to Russia's Internet Research Agency.
Many of the accounts had gone dormant in 2020 after being discovered but had reactivated in August and September,
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