How Russian AI targets news organisations

How Russian AI targets news organisations

Networks of bots - automated social media accounts - have been found to be targeting European elections including, in the last year, those in Moldova, Poland and Germany. But could their real intention be to tie up news organisations with fact-checking? Damien Sharkov from BBC Monitoring has been looking at how they operate.

Earlier this year, news reports circulated online that a Vietnamese-American scientist called Anh Duong had a hand in creating the bombs used by America in its June airstrikes on Iran. Those reports turned out to be untrue, but Thuong Le from BBC Vietnamese has the real story of the chemical engineer known as 'the Bomb Lady.'

In India, pigeons are a much-loved part of city life for many, but a health risk for some.Sumedha Pal has the story.

Presenter: Faranak Amidi Producers: Laura Thomas and Caroline Ferguson

Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich

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