Surge in Russian Dark Web Posts About US Election Interference in 2024
Defense And Security,Russia,Elections,Russia Meddling
There has been a surge in posts on the dark web concerning election interference in the first two months of the year, the "vast majority" of which reference the U.S. presidential election and were written in Russian, according to analysts at NordVPN.
The virtual private network firm found that in 2022, there were 26 such discussions on the hidden forums, but it increased to 101 last year—a rise of nearly 400 percent. In January and February alone, the company traced 35 discussions.
"The vast majority of the posts in the dark web were about [the] upcoming presidential elections in the United States," Laura Tyrylyte, NordVPN's head of global public relations, told Newsweek. "Most of the posts on elections that we found were written in Russian."
The company cautioned that the chatter did not mean that a cyberattack or foreign influence operation was being planned but suggested that improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) generated content could make disinformation easier to produce and more convincing.
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