Summary
Affiliates of RT (formerly Russia Today), a Russian state-sponsored media organization, used Meliorator—a covert artificial intelligence (AI) enhanced software package—to create fictitious online personas, representing a number of nationalities, to post content on X (formerly Twitter). Using this tool, RT affiliates disseminated disinformation to and about a number of countries, including the United States, Poland, Although the tool was only identified on X, the authoring organizations’ analysis of Meliorator indicated the developers intended to expand its functionality to other social media platforms. The authoring organizations’ analysis also indicated the tool is capable of the following: The authoring organizations encourage social media companies to leverage the information in this advisory to assist with identifying fictitious personas to reduce Russian malign foreign influence activity. For additional information, see U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release Justice Department and International and Private Sector Partners Disrupt Covert Russian Government-Operated Social Media Bot Farm. For more information on Russia state-sponsored malicious cyber activity, see the Russia Cyber Threat Overview and Advisories webpage.