Just in 2024, the Kremlin’s propaganda network flooded the web with 3.6 million fake articles to trick the top 10 AI models, a report reveals.
From: Euromaiden Press BY MARIA TRIL
Russia has launched a unique disinformation network, Pravda (Truth in Russian), to manipulate top AI chatbots into spreading Kremlin propaganda, research organization NewsGuard states in its March 2025 report.
According to the research, the Moscow-based network implements a comprehensive strategy to deliberately infiltrate AI chatbot training data and publish false claims.
This effort seeks to influence AI responses on news topics rather than targeting ordinary readers. By flooding search results with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, the network affects the way large language models process and present information.
In 2024 alone, the network published 3.6 million articles, reaching 49 countries across 150 domains in dozens of languages, the American Sunlight Project (ASP) revealed.
Pravda was deployed in April 2022 and was first discovered in February 2024 by the French government agency Viginum, which monitors foreign disinformation campaigns.
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