Fake Tom Cruise documentary is part of a Russian influence campaign aimed at Paris Olympics, report finds | CNN Business

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Pro-Russian propagandists are ramping up their efforts to denigrate next month’s Paris Summer Olympics and undermine Western support for Ukraine through a series of brazen online and offline stunts, private experts and Western officials told CNN.

The stunts have included using artificial intelligence to impersonate the actor Tom Cruise’s voice narrating a fake documentary attacking the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and placing coffins with an inscription invoking the Ukraine war near the Eiffel Tower, sources said.

The activity appears to be part of an increasingly frantic effort from Russian operatives to tarnish the

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