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Debunked: Russia’s fake news campaign targeting the Olympics
Recently, a video of a man claiming to be a Hamas fighter threatening an Olympic attack spread across the world.
Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center said Russian troll farm, Storm-1516, could be behind the video, which Hamas called a “forgery”.
In March, another group thought to be Russian known as Storm-1679, launched a fake news campaign with videos about supposed terrorist threats targeting the Olympics in Paris.
But, this was a plot to spread fake news about the safety of the world event - which Russia was banned from because of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Watch Debunked for more.
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