{
  "id": 3611696,
  "title": "Russian Influence Network Used ChatGPT to Masquerade as Academic Experts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/russian-influence-network-used-chatgpt-to-masquerade-as-academic",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-26T22:46:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Decrypt",
    "slug": "decrypt",
    "url": "https://decrypt.co/376662/russia-chatgpt-influence-campaign"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The operation promoted a purported Israeli think tank that published copied scholarship under academics’ names and circulated pro-Russian analysis across social media.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Hacker News",
        "title": "OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used to Run Influence Operation",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/openai-bans-russian-chatgpt-accounts-used-to-run-influence-operation",
        "published": "2026-08-26T09:38:45.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}