I’ll Take “Spreading Lies About Haitians Voting” For $100, Alex.

Remember the furor a few days ago about Haitians who aren’t citizens voting in Georgia? The video was debunked pretty quickly, then identified as Russian disinformation, and now “AlphaFox78” the pro-Trump account on Twitter admits he tweeted it after being paid $100 by an agent of Russia.

In phone and text interviews with CNN over multiple days, the person behind the account, which has amassed more than 650,000 followers on X, said he posted the video without fact-checking the claims made in it.

“I don’t have any idea where it came from or anything – I’m just the guy who shared it,” he said.

The man said Simeon Boikov, a Russian propagandist podcaster known online as “AussieCossack,” offered him $100 to post the video, which he agreed to. A person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to CNN that multiple payments were sent from Boikov to the Massachusetts man.

Documents reviewed by CNN show that Boikov is a registered foreign agent for Russia in Australia, where he works for Russian state media, writing and posting online in English and Russian.

$100? Really? AlphaFox78 is willing to spread lies that further Russia’s agenda for the paltry sum of $100? He should have held out for the big Russian money like Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson.

Despite all this, Amy Kremer, the Republican National Committeewoman from Georgia isn’t buying it:

Good grief.

In this age of disinformation, lies, AI fakes, and Russian propaganda, it’s more important than ever to be a person with discernment – a person who doesn’t immediately take to social media to “ask questions” that undermine confidence in our institutions. If something shady is served up to you on a silver platter, pause for a moment and consider the possibility it’s a pack of lies meant to divide America.