Moscow:
Moscow denied on Saturday that it was behind fake videos about the US election, after US intelligence said Russia was behind a fake video showing a Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted multiple times.
Three US intelligence agencies said in a joint statement on Friday that “Russian influence actors” made the video as part of “Moscow’s broader effort to raise baseless questions about the integrity of the US elections.”
The statement also said that Russian actors were behind another fake video.
“We noted the statement of the US intelligence services accusing our country of spreading fabricated videos of electoral violations in the United States. We consider these accusations to be unfounded,” the Russian embassy in the United States said in a statement on Telegram.
The 20-second clip shows a man saying in a pompous, robotic pose, “We’re from Haiti. We came to America six months ago and we already have our American citizenship – we’re voting for Kamala Harris.”
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the swing state’s top election official, said Friday that the video was an example of “targeted disinformation.”
Raffensperger said the “obviously fake” video was likely a production of “Russian troll farms.”
The embassy said Russia “did not receive any evidence for these claims during its communications with US officials.”
“As President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly emphasized, we respect the will of the American people. Any insinuations about ‘Russian machinations’ are malicious slander,” the embassy said in a statement also released by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
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