A group publishing pro- Russia propaganda online is impersonating legitimate news outlets in an attempt to disseminate disinformation , Politico reported, citing misinformation tracking organization NewsGuard.

The effort, known as Storm-1679, creates websites that mimic real news outlets and uses those sites to push fake news stories. They have published disinformation designed to look like stories from ABC News , the BBC , and Politico , among others. The group has also used artificial intelligence to proliferate fake videos, often hooked to major news events. To some degree, their efforts are working. People — including right-wing influencers — have fallen for them.

One such video, a fabricated E! News report, claimed this past February that the U.S. Agency for International

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