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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Niko Vorobyov

What’s at stake for Russia’s Putin in the US election?

Then-US President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, shake hands at a meeting in the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018 [Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo]

With a desktop computer by his side, the secretary of state of the southern US state of Georgia on Thursday told reporters that a video spreading on social media, purporting to show Haitians voting in the United States presidential election for Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris, was fake.

It was, according to Brad Raffensberger, the Georgia state official, likely “a production of Russian troll farms”.

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