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Russian Disinformation Campaign Reportedly Used AI-Generated Posts and Videos to Target 2025 Moldovan Parliamentary Elections

September 7, 2025

Investigations suggest Russian operatives have employed possibly AI-generated posts, videos, and websites to manipulate the September 2025 Moldovan parliamentary elections. Networks of approximately 900 accounts on platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and YouTube allegedly disseminated fabricated narratives, including misogynistic remarks and false accusations against President Maia Sandu.

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Alleged deployer
storm-1679, storm-1516, russian-state-linked-actors, russian-disinformation-operators, matryoshka, influence-operation-groups
Alleged developer
unknown-generative-ai-developers
Alleged harmed parties
moldovan-voters, moldovan-democratic-institutions, maia-sandu, general-public-of-moldova, general-public, european-union, epistemic-integrity, electoral-integrity, national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1202

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