American creating deep fakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show

The Washington Post ^ | October 23, 2024 at 5:34 p.m. EDT | Catherine Belton

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post.

The documents show that John Mark Dougan, who also served in the U.S. Marines and has long claimed to be working independently of the Russian government, was provided funding by an officer from the GRU, the country’s military intelligence service. Some of the payments were made after fake news sites he created began to have difficulty accessing Western artificial intelligence systems this spring and he needed an AI generator — a tool that can be prompted to create text, photos and video.

Dougan’s liaison at the GRU is a senior figure in Russian military intelligence working under the cover name Yury Khoroshevsky, the documents show. The officer’s real name is Yury Khoroshenky, though he is only referred to as Khoroshevsky in the documents, and he serves in the GRU’s Unit 29155, which oversees sabotage, political interference operations and cyberwarfare targeting the West, according to two European security officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

The more than 150 documents — which were shared with The Post to demonstrate the extent of Russian interference through Dougan and focus mostly on the period between March 2021 and August 2024 — for the first time expose some of the inner workings of a network that researchers and intelligence officials say has become the most potent source of fake news emanating from Russia and targeting American voters over the past year.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

...according to two European security officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

Anonymously sourced WaPo articles = Lies

[Revel]

I feel so Sorry now for Kamila after the WP told me lies that I am going to vote for her.

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Frank Drebin]

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

October Gatling gun of outrageous lies surprised.

[butterdezillion]

I am so sick of this crap. If US voters are stupid enough to believe the same people who lied about the peepee dossier and the Hunter Biden laptop, then we’re all screwed just by association.

[BenLurkin]

It makes no sense.

Why would the Russians want to help America?

[Darksheare]

Don’t they have anything but “Russia Russia Russia”?

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Wash Compost. NO Credibility.

[rlmorel]

Let see. Once early voting started in earnest (I voted today) we have:

• A groping accusation against Trump from 1993
  
  
• Trump praising Hitler
  
  
• Some mysterious Election Changing Accusation hinted at by Mark Halperin
  
  
• A Republican, working hand in hand with the Russian Intelligence to get out things that harm Harris
  
  
• Wait 15 minutes and insert something new here.

Did it suddenly occur to them that a huge people might actually cast their vote before they were able to begin throwing mud against the wall, so they are pulling out all the stops now on these kinds of things?

[rlmorel]

I like that. Good one.

[DiogenesLamp]

American creating deep fakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show

Not buying anything put out by either the Washington Lying Post, or "intelligence" agencies.

We've already seen that stupid lying tactic before and nobody is gonna buy it.

[No name given]

Nope.

[eyeamok]

OMG! The Russians again...

[lucky american]

Why do they always go back to Russia? It’s getting old.

[wbarmy]

deep fakes targeting Harris

Really!!! Where are they? I want to see these deep fakes? If you can't produce the websites then they are lying!

[chief lee runamok]

"Why do they always go back to
Russia? It’s getting old."

  It all started back in 1966.

[Darksheare]

I’m actually disappointed and impressed by that at the same time.
It takes dedication to stick to it.

[CatOwner]

I don't think they're trying to change votes now. They're putting forth the narrative that Trump is evil and morally corrupt, and anything that happens on or after Election Day *cough* voter fraud *cough* was necessary to save democracy. Or some such excuse.

[BobL]

“A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes”

I think they’re getting confused. The ‘deepfakes’ that they’re seeing are actually Harris campaign events.

[piasa]

“according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service”

So, wouldn’t this mean that the Wash Po is colluding with the Russian agency which allegedly released the documents or allowed tgem to be taken?