A pornographic video that falsely claimed to show Hillary Clinton engaged in a sex act has been traced back to an account that Reddit acknowledged on Tuesday is linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency.
The account, Rubinjer, was the Russia-linked agency’s most popular account on Reddit and received almost 100,000 upvotes, or Reddit’s version of Facebook’s “likes,” in its lifecycle before it was shut down by the site.
One of Rubinjer’s posts on Reddit’s largest pro-Trump community, r/The_Donald, titled “This is How Hillary gets black votes,” links to an animated gif of the fake porn video that is still available on the platform. The same sex tape was posted five times to PornHub under the name “Leaked Hillary Clinton’s Hotel Sex Tape with Black Guy,” and also the porn site SpankBang.
The video was viewed more than 250,000 times on Pornhub.
A whistleblower from the Internet Research Agency, former employee Alan Baskaev, told Russia’s TV Rain last October that the troll farm had created a fake Hillary Clinton porn video. The video itself had not been credibly tied to a troll farm account until Reddit released usernames tied to the Russia-linked agency Tuesday.
The graphic video shows a blonde woman and a black man having sex through a mock hidden camera in what appears to be a hotel room. Rubinjer was the only user to post the video, and the account pushed the content on several platforms, both as animated GIFs and full videos, before the 2016 election.
Everything Russia does is dirty. Maybe because the Kremlin is ruled by a kike?
Jack Edwards
You pushed that one a bit too far Russia.
David Brooks
this is the latest, cheesiest, most boring bullshit I've seen in quite some time.
…and you thought this was interesting WHY?
Easton Thomas
"russia" is a codeword for Zig Forums
Carter Martinez
Zig Forums is codeword for retarded
John Cook
OP here,I FEEL THE SAMe WAY but morons on r/donald and Zig Forums were actually influenced my this shit
Luke Campbell
Another attack on democracy. Meanwhile retarded alt rightists and other fascists deflect and misdirect knowing damn well theyre in the pockets of the KGB too. Well Ive got a question for you. Where do you get off? How much freedom has to be taken away before youre happy?
Holy shit this is clearly fucking fake and with faceapp being around it wouldnt even have been hard to fake it properly.
Low tier effort, 0/10 did not lel
Samuel Davis
You wish moshe
Christian Baker
Or perhaps they were just retweeting an already popular video. Russians have a great sense of humor, picrel is one of their main politicians making fun of Obama.