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JD Vance’s claim that Ukrainian officials used US aid money to buy yachts originated with a Russian propaganda op.
NBC News traced the story back to a small, prolific group that researchers call Storm-1516.
Storm-1516 puts out faked primary sources, including “confessions” from fake whistleblowers. As a source put it:
“[I]t only takes one person, one influencer with outsized influence, to grab onto a video and amplify it in the United States.”
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