Two top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees held a press briefing this week to outline Russian-specific ones. From Politico's write-up:
The Russian government has launched a covert online influence campaign to sway public opinion and undermine both Democrats and Republicans sympathetic to Ukraine ahead of the midterms, two key Democratic lawmakers warned Wednesday.
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) and House Intelligence Committee ranking member Jim Himes (D-Conn.) told reporters Wednesday that the findings on Russia were detailed in a classified report on foreign election interference sent to their offices by the U.S. intelligence community earlier this week.
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Warner said the report suggested that Moscow is using artificial intelligence tools to spread these ideas faster and target Americans more effectively.
While the lawmakers did not specify which political candidates were being targeted, they stressed that any political figure supportive of Ukraine — on both sides of the aisle — was likely on Russia’s radar.
Responding to claims about alleged election misdeeds and malfunctions that originate on social media is like playing whac-a-mole on a surface the size of a baseball field. It's one reason why unverified content appearing there (for example, a video from an anonymous account purporting to show such-and-such a problem) is typically unreliable — it's easy to get away with if it's wrong. This is about the Russia-specific issue highlighted by Warner and Himes, yes, but also out-of-the-blue alarm bells about election machines, vote processing, etc.
For example, an anonymous X account based in "South Asia," according to X's account description of it, has been spreading old social media clips and observed: "There is a very disturbing trend being seen in early voting. Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio are reporting difficulties getting the machines to accept democratic votes. The machines change them back to Republican unless the voter persists, pressing several times to get the correct vote to go through." (I'm not going to link to it.) This message and others citing it have been reposted thousands and thousands of times. As a rule, these allegations are garbage, yet they will come by the hundreds in the weeks ahead.
(Chris Deaton)