You probably didn’t hear anything about this disgusting story last week because most of us who have been around for a while knew immediately it was a fake. Because Democrats are used to having this kind of propaganda pumped into the online world, we ignored it. But it certainly popped up on dozens of extremist sites, where the sickos gleefully celebrated the “news.” Turns out we were right. Via Wired:
A Russian-aligned propaganda network notorious for creating deepfake whistleblower videos appears to be behind a coordinated effort to promote wild and baseless claims that Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz sexually assaulted one of his former students, according to several specialists tracking the disinformation campaign.
Experts believe that the campaign is tied to a network called Storm-1516, which has been linked to, among other things, a previous effort that falsely claimed vice president Kamala Harris perpetrated a hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011. Storm-1516 has a long history of posting fake whistleblower videos, and often deepfake videos, to push Kremlin talking points to the West.
