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Russian Operatives Clone Sarah Jessica Parker to Stop Democrats Voting

Now they are faking clips of Brandy Zadrozny, the reporter who exposed them.

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Zev Shalev
Sep 17, 2026
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Sarah Jessica Parker looks into a camera with CNN's logo over her shoulder and tells Democrats not to vote in November.

She never said it.

Operatives running a Russian network called Matryoshka took real footage of Parker, cloned her voice, dropped in new audio and stuck CNN's logo on the result. They did the same to Julia Roberts, Christopher Lloyd, Alyson Hannigan and Eric Roberts — sixteen videos so far. Olga Lautman, who has tracked Matryoshka for years, says the operators added the logo "to make the messages look real."

The clips ride a hashtag, #AllDemocratsAreCriminals, and they name candidates. Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia. James Talarico in Texas. Narativ mapped this network's American operation in March, in Exclusive: The Plot To Steal 2026 Elections, when it targeted the machinery that counts the vote. Its operators now target the people casting it.

Then Matryoshka went after the reporters. Fake clips now circulate of Brandy Zadrozny of MS NOW, who exposed the campaign, appearing to retract her own reporting. Antibot4navalny spotted the operation first. Darren Linvill of Clemson's Media Forensics Hub took it apart.

Operators who forge the debunkers expect to get caught and have decided it doesn't matter. They learned that on a European ballot voters reach this Sunday.

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