U.S. authorities have revealed that Russian operatives produced a counterfeit video showing mail-in ballots supposedly marked for former President Trump being set ablaze in Pennsylvania.
“The IC [Intelligence Community] assesses that Russian actors manufactured and amplified a recent video that falsely depicted an individual ripping up ballots in Pennsylvania, judging from information available to the IC and prior activities of other Russian influence actors, including videos and other disinformation activities,” a joint announcement from the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said on Friday.
The video a depicted a black individual destroying Trump ballots. It gained significant traction on social media this week, before being discredited by election officials in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on Thursday.
“This type of behavior is meant to sow division and distrust in our election systems, and makes a mockery of the people working incredibly hard to ensure a free and fair election is carried out,” the Bucks County Board of Elections stated.
They pointed out that materials and envelopes shown were not genuine, labeling the video as a “fake.”
The Bucks County’s election board notified the district attorney’s office, the FBI, Pennsylvania’s Department of State, and the state attorney general about the video.
U.S. officials stated that the video “is part of Moscow’s broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the U.S. election and stoke divisions among Americans, as detailed in prior ODNI election updates.”
They further noted that the intelligence community anticipates more content from Russia intended to undermine confidence in U.S. elections.
This incident follows multiple deepfake image attacks targeting Trump this year.
Artificial intelligence-generated images flooded social media after the former president was convicted of felony charges in the spring.
In August, another fake photo depicted a younger Trump sitting beside convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on a private jet.
The image circulated widely social media, accumulating hundreds of thousands of views, but experts later confirmed it was AI-generated.
The same month, Trump accused Harris of using AI to create fake images of huge crowds at her campaign events, despite journalists witnessing the crowds firsthand.
“She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting and the ‘crowd’ looked like 10,000 people!” Trump commented on social media after seeing photographs showing large crowds cheering for Harris at an airplane hangar near Detroit.
This week, an AI-enhanced video surfaced online, portraying Trump stumbling awkwardly while working at a McDonald’s drive-thru window—a parody of his recent campaign visit to the fast-food chain in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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They just can’t let go of the Russia hoax junk can they