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Russian Twitter bots boosted baseless voter fraud claims in Germany
A Russian-language network of Twitter bots tried to boost claims of voter fraud going into Germany's national elections on Sept. 24.
Those elections seem to have largely avoided the alleged Russian interference that had recently taken place in both the United States and France, but Russian-language bots still seized on a claim made by what appears to be a fake account, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.
On Sept. 22, an account sent a tweet in German (translated below) that made it seem as though someone going by the name of "Sahrer" was going to help run the election, and would invalidate votes in favor of Alternative for Germany, a far-right party whose leaders have developed friendships in Moscow. Read more...
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