Flutterby™! : Fake videos with Russian provenance

Russia goes all-out with covert disinformation aimed at Harris, Microsoft report says

Microsoft explained that the video blaming Harris for a fake hit-and-run incident came from a Russian-aligned influence network it calls Storm-1516, which other researchers refer to as CopyCop. The video, whose main character is played by an actor, is typical of the group’s efforts to react to current events with authentic-seeming “whistleblower” accounts that may seem like juicy unreported news to U.S. voters, the company said.

Microsoft blog entry.