One strange aspect of the story is that the Russian tr0lls got Brian Baumgartner (“Kevin” from The Office) and other celebrities to record anti-Sandu messages in Russian on Cameo* and then compiled them and put them on TikTok to try and influence Moldovan voters.
There’s probably an onslaught of this going on in the U.S. right now, aided by “AI” and enabled, as usual, by the feckless or outright malicious owners of social media platforms.
[* a site where you can pay celebrities to record short video messages for birthdays and such.]
