I need your help.
The US midterm elections are under attack. On YouTube, I constantly encounter American AI generated political commentary channels that are picking up followers, and I am convinced the objective is to use these channels to disinform the public in the fall.
Please help by reporting this video as misinformation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P0EwPwF7jw
If you are not sure this is AI, notice the way it repeats the same few hand gesture multiple times throughout the video.
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Last few days there's a whole new style of quasi-identical Russian/Far-right bots here on Mastodon. This has been going on for ~1year, but this latest attack is quite intense. If you follow #EU / #Ukraine tags, you'll see them.
Clues =
• meaningless mixed letter name
• 0 to a few followers
• Lots of posts in a short time
• Many posts beginning / ending with ellipses (threads)
• Often posts are identical to those of other bots/accounts
• Seeing a lot in French language
@gsymon just mention the posts in question with the NAFO or NAFOTakedown hashtags. The fellas will be on it ASAP and trying to find the admins/who owns the domain/server to put an end to the russian propaganda.
You're seeing a lot in French because the Municipal Elections were last weekend and this weekend, if I'm not mistaken. Putin's buddies need "mairies" now, before trying to reach higher government places.
@randahl
Randahl Fink
Grant
João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)