FBI links video falsely depicting US voter fraud to ‘Russian influence actors’

A video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia by a man who claims to be from Haiti is fake and the work of ‘Russian influence actors’, US intelligence officials say (Mike Stewart/AP)

A video purporting to depict voter fraud in Georgia is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors”, US intelligence officials said on Friday, as they warned that foreign efforts to undermine faith in the integrity of next week’s elections may persist long after votes have been cast.

The announcement that the video was fake represented an effort by the FBI and other federal agencies, four days before Tuesday’s elections, to combat foreign disinformation by calling it out rather than letting it spread for days unchecked.