CNN —Microsoft said Tuesday that Russian operatives have in recent weeks intensified their online attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign by producing and disseminating videos promoting “outlandish conspiracy theories” aimed at stoking US racial and political divisions.
One of the inauthentic videos, which Microsoft said had been viewed millions of times, claimed to show Harris supporters attacking an attendee of a Donald Trump rally.
Russian operatives promoted the latter story through a website pretending to be a local San Francisco media outlet, Microsoft researchers said.
CNN has requested comment on the Microsoft report from the Harris-Walz campaign and from the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC.
Tehran has conducted a covert social media activity in an effort to undercut Trump’s candidacy, US officials have said.
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