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.
The posts include memes and recently a debunked video purporting to show voter fraud.
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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.
The man behind the MAGA account told CNN: “I don’t have any idea where it came from or anything - I’m just the guy who shared it."
The man deleted the post after it was viewed more than half a million times.