マシュー・メトロは、先週友人からテキストで送られてきたリンクをクリックしたときに携帯電話の画面に表示された顔に見覚えがなかった。しかし、オンライン動画の再生ボタンを押した後、彼は見たものに落胆した。

「私の名前はマシュー・メトロです」と動画の男性は言い、数十年前、民主党副大統領候補のティム・ウォルツが教師をしていたミネソタ州の高校での学生生活について語った。ウォルツが働いていたときに学校にいたことなど、いくつかの詳細は本物のメトロの経歴と一致した。しかし、動画の男性はさらに踏…

translated-ja-A Russian-aligned propaganda network notorious for creating deepfake whistleblower videos appears to be behind a coordinated effort to promote wild and baseless claims that Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Ti…

translated-ja-Earlier this month, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was plagued by MAGA rumors that he had sexually groomed a former student of his. Now it appears that unfounded gossip was funded by a familiar source of misinfo…

translated-ja-A video shared widely on X purports to show a former Mankato West High School student accusing Tim Walz of sexually assaulting him when the Democratic vice presidential candidate was a teacher at the Minnesota school decades a…

translated-ja-U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday said Russians seeking to disrupt the U.S. elections created a faked video and other material smearing Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz with abuse allegations and are consider…

translated-ja-Russian disinformation groups likely orchestrated baseless claims targeting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, falsely accusing the vice presidential candidate of sexually assaulting his students while he was a high school teacher, acco…

translated-ja-Russia was behind salacious false claims against Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz that circulated widely on social media last week, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

"The intelligence community assesses th…

translated-ja-Russia was behind recent social media posts making baseless and salacious claims about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday.

Why it matters: It's the latest example of foreign actors trying to shap…

translated-ja-The Russian government created the fake viral video of a former student of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz accusing him of sexual abuse, U.S. intelligence said.

"The [intelligence community] assesses that Russi…

translated-ja-If you're even a little bit familiar with politics, you probably already know about the infamous October surprise, a news event that breaks the month before the election with the potential to influence the presidential race. T…

translated-ja-A viral post on X by a user entrenched in the QAnon conspiracy sphere claimed that a former student of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Matthew Metro, alleged that Walz sexually assaulted him in 1997 when he was still a student. The m…