Russian state media uses covert software for disinformation bots, US warns

Authorities report Meliorator, an AI-powered tool used by Russia-linked actors and RT affiliates to generate fictitious social media personas and run an automated bot farm that spread disinformation across the U.S. and multiple allied countries; U.S. law enforcement seized domains and targeted accounts while social platform X suspended identified bots, and the advisory alleges Kremlin financing and FSB access to the tool.