AI Incident Database: Russian Disinformation Campaign Reportedly Used AI-Generated Posts and Videos to Target 2025 Moldovan Parliamentary Elections
Researchers and European officials reported that Russian operatives have been using purportedly AI-generated posts, videos, and websites to influence Moldova's September 2025 parliamentary elections. Networks of over 900 accounts across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and YouTube have reportedly spread fabricated narratives, including reportedly misogynistic and false smears of President Maia Sandu.
AI Incident Database · Incident 1202Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
Researchers and European officials reported that Russian operatives have been using purportedly AI-generated posts, videos, and websites to influence Moldova's September 2025 parliamentary elections. Networks of over 900 accounts across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and YouTube have reportedly spread fabricated narratives, including reportedly misogynistic and false smears of President Maia Sandu.
Linked entities
- large-language-model-developers
organisation | 70%
- deepfake-technology-developers
organisation | 70%
- storm-1679
organisation | 70%
- storm-1516
organisation | 70%
- russian-state-linked-actors
organisation | 70%
- matryoshka
organisation | 70%
- influence-operation-groups
organisation | 70%
- information-manipulation-actors
organisation | 70%
- pro-russian-information-manipulation-actors
organisation | 70%
- national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
organisation | 70%
- moldovan-voters
organisation | 70%
- moldovan-democratic-institutions
organisation | 70%
- maia-sandu
organisation | 70%
- general-public-of-moldova
organisation | 70%
- general-public
organisation | 70%
- european-union
organisation | 70%
- epistemic-integrity
organisation | 70%
- democratic-integrity
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
| Edge | Type | Confidence |
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| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |