A registered foreign agent of Russia has repeatedly paid a right-wing influencer account to post memes and even promote a bogus voting fraud hoax, according to a report. (Photo credit: JRdes / Shutterstock) A registered foreign agent of Russia has repeatedly paid a right-wing influencer account to post memes and even promote a bogus voting fraud hoax, according to a report.
Simeon Boikov, a podcaster known online as “AussieCossack," paid the person behind the X account @Alphafox78 $100 a piece for about 10 posts, CNN reported Monday night. The account has about 650,000 followers and CNN obtained documents showing Boikov is a registered foreign agent for Russia in Australia.
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“Earlier today, our office became aware of a video purporting to show a Haitian immigrant with multiple Georgia ID’s claiming to have voted multiple times,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement Thursday. “This is false, and is an example of targeted disinformation we’ve seen this election.”
Raffensperger said the video was created and distributed by Russian influencers.
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The man deleted the post after it was viewed more than half a million times.
Chances are they would do it for a hamburger and a pat on the back…