Russia has started a disinformation campaign with the aim of discrediting the credibility of the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics, scheduled from Friday 26 July to Sunday 11 August. The news emerged thanks to the British newspaper Guardiantaking a Microsoft report as its source.
Specifically, it seems that the initiative has started as early as 2023 by a network of affiliated groups (mainly Storm-1679 and Doppelganger) on telegram channels: among the various materials, a video stands out (titled “Olympics has failed“) starring a fake Tom Cruise which, with the help of Artificial Intelligence, denigrates the work carried out by the IOC and France for the Games with painstaking care: the “documentary” is in fact packaged with the Netflix production, obviously false like the reviews with very high ratings from some of the most authoritative newspapers in the world splashed out in plain sight.
In the past few hours Dmitry Peskovspokesperson for the Kremlin, returned the accusations to the sender, speaking to Agence France-Presse about “Absolute slander” and of “A general criticism without any basis“. The Russian embassy instead denounced in a note “The latest Russophobic campaign unleashed by the French media“.
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Let’s remember that athletes Russians and Belarusians have been banned from team sports in the next five-round event. However, the participation of a small number of participants in the individual competitions will be expected and they will compete in a neutral capacity only if they are openly opposed to the current war conflict in Ukraine.
