How Russia is using artificial intelligence to interfere in elections
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🗓️ 4 September 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Today's Justice Department indictments alleging ongoing Russian efforts to spread |
| 0:05.3 | disinformation come just two months before election day. |
| 0:08.8 | Moscow's attempts to interfere in US and other elections are nothing new, |
| 0:13.6 | though their tactics and strategy are constantly evolving. |
| 0:17.4 | Before today's announcement, |
| 0:18.9 | Special correspondent Simon Ostrowski |
| 0:21.2 | recently sat down with an investigative journalist who spent years uncovering Russian |
| 0:26.0 | operations about yet another effort to sow doubt and chaos, this time using artificial intelligence. |
| 0:33.0 | Russia's foreign intelligence service has a new plan to influence Western countries in this election year. |
| 0:39.0 | Russia's CIA, which goes by its initials to, SVR, plans to use artificial intelligence to mask a |
| 0:46.2 | sophisticated effort to interfere in a third straight U.S. presidential election. |
| 0:52.3 | First, a quick tour of 2016. |
| 0:54.4 | Russia, if you're listening, |
| 0:56.6 | I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. |
| 1:03.0 | Russian Intelligence hacked the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's |
| 1:08.0 | campaign chair. |
| 1:10.0 | Thousands of emails were then dumped in a coordinated fashion to influence the race. |
| 1:15.4 | And that's not to mention the operations of Russian troll farms that created thousands of |
| 1:20.2 | digital sock puppet soldiers to repeat and repeat messages that boosted Donald |
| 1:27.4 | Trump at Hillary Clinton's expense. |
| 1:30.1 | They declared war full-scale hot war information war on the rest of the world. |
| 1:35.0 | The man who helped uncover this new effort is Christo Grosev, an investigative journalist who's unmasked many intelligence operations, perhaps most famously, he found the |
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