A covert social media bot farm operated by the Russian government that uses artificial intelligence to spread deadly information to global users has been disrupted by a joint FBI-international cybersecurity force operation.
Affiliates with the Russian state-funded news organization Russia Today (RT), used Meliorator – an AI-powered bot farm production software – to set up more than 1000 X (formerly Twitter) bots to spread disinformation in many countries, including the US, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Ukraine, and Israel.
“A social media bot farm used AI features to create fake social media profiles — often purported to be of people in the United States — and operators then used messages to support Russian government goals, according to affidavits unsealed today,” the Justice Department said in a press release.
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