{"publisher":{"name":"MediaBias News","url":"https://mediabias.news","methodology":"https://mediabias.news/methodology","editorialPrinciples":"https://mediabias.news/editorial-principles","corrections":"https://mediabias.news/corrections"},"scoreGuide":{"trust":"How well corroborated and evidenced the source reporting is. 0-100, higher is better.","critic":"Craft quality of the source journalism: context, balance, fact vs comment. 0-100, higher is better.","hype":"How far the source presentation runs ahead of substance. 0-100, LOWER IS BETTER.","scope":"Scores assess the original reporting this article was written from, not the truth of the underlying event and not the quality of this write-up."},"assessmentGuide":{"type":"coverage-and-source-reporting-analysis","factCheck":{"status":"not-performed","note":"Media Bias News compares coverage and scores the source reporting. It does not currently publish a ClaimReview verdict on whether the underlying event or claim is true."},"sourceFactuality":{"note":"Factuality values describe published ratings of the outlets that covered the story. They are not a factuality verdict on this story or its claims."}},"story":{"id":"https://mediabias.news/media/openai-bans-russian-and-iranian-accounts-for-influence-operations","slug":"openai-bans-russian-and-iranian-accounts-for-influence-operations","url":"https://mediabias.news/media/openai-bans-russian-and-iranian-accounts-for-influence-operations","title":"OpenAI Bans Russian and Iranian Accounts for Influence Operations","subtitle":"Company reports disruption of campaigns using AI to spread disinformation and plant fake news.","excerpt":"OpenAI has banned accounts linked to Russian and Iranian influence operations that used its AI tools to create fake journalist personas and plant articles in media outlets. The Russian campaign targeted Latin America, while the Iranian operation focused on anti-US war narratives.","category":"Media","area":"Ukraine","publishedAt":"2026-10-09T09:45:29.225Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-10-09T09:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T09:45:29.225Z","readTime":"4 min read","scores":{"trust":42,"critic":61,"hype":41,"notes":{"trust":"Central claims attributed to OpenAI, with two full reports and multiple digests.","critic":"Reports include quotes from experts and affected parties, and explain the context and implications.","hype":"Headlines and digests use some loaded language but do not appear to misrepresent the core findings."}},"tags":["#OpenAI","#AI","#Disinformation","#InfluenceOperations","#Russia","#Iran","#Ukraine"],"entities":["OpenAI","Russia","Iran","ChatGPT","Stepan Bandera","Donald Trump","Jared Kushner"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["OpenAI has banned accounts involved in Russian and Iranian influence operations that used its AI tools.","The Russian operation, dubbed 'Dark Clark', targeted Latin America with disinformation and political influence campaigns.","Iranian operatives used AI to generate approximately 100 articles critical of the US war against Iran, planting them in about a dozen outlets.","The company reported that the Russian campaign was the most far-reaching influence operation it has disrupted to date."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced on Thursday that it had banned accounts linked to two influence operations originating from Russia and Iran. These operations leveraged OpenAI's AI tools, including ChatGPT, to create fake journalist identities and disseminate propaganda. The Russian campaign, identified as 'Dark Clark', focused on spreading disinformation across Latin America to undermine support for Ukraine and influence local politics. The Iranian operation involved generating approximately 100 articles critical of the US war against Iran and planting them in about a dozen media outlets worldwide."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"OpenAI stated that the Russian operation was the most far-reaching influence campaign it has disrupted to date. This campaign reportedly involved impersonating a regional educational authority in Peru to organize activities featuring a controversial historical figure, Stepan Bandera, which led to a public response from a political figure in the European Parliament. The Russian operatives also allegedly ran a fake think tank in Latin America, recruiting unwitting researchers to compose reports."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Iranian operatives used AI to tweak articles and editorial pitches, and generate social media comments. The articles produced by the Iranian campaign often carried provocative titles, such as \"Is America’s Iran Policy Being Privatized? The Jared Kushner Question,\" and \"The Iran War and the Collapse of Western Moral Credibility.\" OpenAI noted that while the overall activity appeared consistent with a commercial actor running a for-hire influence campaign, it was unable to identify the specific actor involved."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreements in reporting"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Reports differ on the specific number of outlets that published articles from the Iranian operation. KIFI and KRDO, citing CNN, state that about a dozen outlets ran roughly 100 articles. However, The Washington Post digest states that ChatGPT users in Iran made more than 100 fake articles published across at least 20 news outlets. NBC News reports that the Russian campaign is the most far-reaching influence operation OpenAI has disrupted."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the left, centre, or right-rated reports printed below mention the specific figure of approximately 100 articles by seven fake journalists that OpenAI stated were published across about a dozen outlets worldwide. The full reports from KIFI and NPR do mention this figure, but it is not present in the digests of the other rated outlets."}],"basedOn":[{"sourceName":"Formiche.net","url":"https://formiche.net/2026/10/dark-clark-fronti-fittizi-firme-inesistenti-ia-guerra-cognitiva","headline":"Dark Clark, Fictitious Fronts and Non-Existent Signatures. 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