"Russia's Covert Campaign: Exploiting Celebrities on Cameo to Discredit Ukraine's Leader"
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Russia has been covertly purchasing personalized video messages from US celebrities on the Cameo app and manipulating them to make it seem like the celebrities are disparaging Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelensky. Celebrities such as Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson, John McGinley, and Kate Flannery have had their videos repurposed to falsely denigrate Zelensky. The manipulated videos were then spread through Russian social media and featured by government-controlled news organizations. The Kremlin's use of fake celebrity cameos is a new weapon in its information war with the West.
- Russia is repurposing purchased Cameo videos from US celebrities to make them seem to be disparaging Ukraine's leader Boing Boing
- CNN: Russia exploited celebrity Cameo videos to spread anti-Ukraine propaganda on social media Euromaidan Press
- Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky The Register
- Russian Propagandists' New Weapon: Cameo Videos Newser
- Elijah Wood, other celebs unwittingly used in Russia propaganda campaign Global News
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