Russia’s embassy in the United States denied accusations of Moscow’s interference in the U.S. presidential election after officials said false bomb threats to polling stations appeared to have originated in Russia.
The FBI confirmed on Tuesday that bomb threats to polling places in several states likely originated from Russian email domains. Although the FBI said none of the threats were determined to be credible, they forced the temporary closure of several polling locations.
This comes after US intelligence assessed last month that Russian agents were behind a fake video that allegedly showed someone destroying mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania in late October.
The Russian embassy in Washington said the US accusations were “slanderous and unfounded”.
“All insinuations about ‘Russian machinations’ are malicious slander, invented for use in the internal political struggle of the United States,” the embassy said in comments reported by state news agency RIA Novosti.
The embassy said it had “not received any evidence in its contacts with US officials or even any requests regarding the story being promoted in the press,” and accused US officials and media of “hysteria” over alleged Russian disinformation related to the election.
Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov has repeatedly denied any election interference by Moscow, saying the allegations were “absolutely unfounded,” according to RIA Novosti.
THE CNN reported that an offshoot of the Russian “troll factory” that targeted the 2016 U.S. presidential election appeared to be at the center of a disinformation campaign attempting to influence Western and especially American audiences, according to a joint investigation with researchers from the Clemson University Media Forensics Hub.
This content was originally published in Russian embassy denies accusations of Moscow interference in the US election on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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