{"id":328147,"date":"2026-03-21T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-russia-china-others-use-ai-to-enhance-foreign-influence-campaigns\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:00:07","slug":"how-russia-china-others-use-ai-to-enhance-foreign-influence-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-russia-china-others-use-ai-to-enhance-foreign-influence-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"How Russia, China &amp; others use AI to enhance foreign influence campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/7TVIqbtORmk\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How Russia, China &amp; others use AI to enhance foreign influence campaigns\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7TVIqbtORmk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Foreign influence campaigns are getting more advanced and harder to trace. China, Russia and others are using AI to quickly develop and spread misinformation, as the US government cuts key programs designed to shield Americans.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Gianna Toboni explains.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 AI influence campaigns by China, Russia, and Iran<br \/>\n1:11 Intelligence expert on the impact of these campaigns<br \/>\n2:37 Foreign actors amplify real user content<br \/>\n3:41 Americans unknowingly promote Chinese interests<br \/>\n7:39 How many influence campaigns are AI-run?<br \/>\n8:59 Gov. agencies defending against influence campaigns shut down<br \/>\n10:41 Private companies sounding the alarm<\/p>\n<p>Watch more news explainers on the CNN app: https:\/\/cnn.it\/4qA8ez3<\/p>\n<p>#AI #China #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign influence campaigns are getting more advanced and harder to trace. China, Russia and others are using AI to quickly develop and spread misinformation, as the US government cuts key programs designed to shield Americans. CNN\u2019s Gianna Toboni explains. 0:00 AI influence campaigns by China, Russia, and Iran 1:11 Intelligence expert on the impact of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[137272,129104,131694],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-328147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-campaigns","tag-foreign","tag-influence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Russia, China &amp; others use AI to enhance foreign influence campaigns | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch How Russia, China &amp; others use AI to enhance foreign influence campaigns for free, here on News ISC. 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