Russian Disinformation Campaign Reportedly Used AI-Generated Posts and Videos to Target 2025 Moldovan Parliamentary Elections
Date: 2025-09-07
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Influence Operation Groups, Information Manipulation Actors, Large Language Model Developers, Matryoshka, Pro Russian Information Manipulation Actors, Russian State Linked Actors, Storm 1516, Storm 1679
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1202: Russian Disinformation Campaign Reportedly Used AI-Generated Posts and Videos to Target 2025 Moldovan Parliamentary Elections. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Influence Operation Groups, Information Manipulation Actors, Large Language Model Developers, Matryoshka, Pro Russian Information Manipulation Actors, Russian State Linked Actors, Storm 1516, Storm 1679. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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