Russia figured out you don’t need to influence people anymore.

You just need to convince the AI models they’re asking.
The Pravda network is 180 websites publishing 3.6 million pro Kremlin articles a year. There isn’t a search function, the navigation is faulty and there are very obvious mistranslations. It has near zero human readers.
It was never built for people, rather built to get into AI training data.
Last week a study confirmed it takes as few as 250 planted documents to shift what an AI tells you. Russia is publishing millions.
A Kremlin propagandist boasted at a Moscow roundtable they’d already infected 35% of worldwide AI. Independent researchers put the real number lower but the operation is confirmed, growing, and largely unaddressed.
There is a silent war happening inside the models you trust.