OpenAI Disrupts Russian Influence Campaign Promoting Fake Think Tank

OpenAI disrupted a covert Russian influence campaign that created a fake think tank (International Burke Institute), published plagiarized research and a custom “sovereignty index,” and used AI-generated posts and personas across multiple social platforms and Telegram (10k–20k subscribers) to push pro-Russian narratives and criticize Western nations; OpenAI banned the account cluster after identifying Russian-language prompts and other language artifacts.