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'Pravda' Network, Successor to 'Portal Kombat,' Allegedly Seeding AI Models with Kremlin Disinformation

February 24, 2022

Exposed: Pravda, a Moscow-based network suspected of spreading Kremlin disinformation, allegedly infiltrated AI models. A NewsGuard audit revealed that 10 major chatbots cited Pravda as a legitimate source 33% of the time, repeating Russian narratives. This tactic, known as LLM grooming, manipulates AI training data, embedding pro-Kremlin propaganda. Pravda is linked to Portal Kombat, a Russian disinformation network identified by VIGINUM in February 2024, active since February 2022.

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Alleged deployer
tigerweb, storm-1516, russian-state-media, pravda-disinformation-network, portal-kombat, john-mark-dougan, government-of-russia
Alleged developer
you.com, xai, perplexity, openai, mistral, microsoft, meta, inflection, google, anthropic
Alleged harmed parties
truth, policymakers, media-consumers, journalists, journalism, governments, government-of-ukraine, general-public-of-ukraine, general-public, democracy, chatbot-users, epistemic-integrity, journalistic-integrity, media-integrity, national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders

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