{"id":80347,"date":"2026-10-22T18:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/russian-operative-likely-behind-fake-videos-targeting-texas-senate-candidate-james-talarico\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:54:55","slug":"russian-operative-likely-behind-fake-videos-targeting-texas-senate-candidate-james-talarico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/russian-operative-likely-behind-fake-videos-targeting-texas-senate-candidate-james-talarico\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian operative likely behind fake videos targeting Texas Senate candidate James Talarico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian operatives are most likely trying to meddle in the Senate race in Texas in the most prominent example yet of a foreign effort to mislead voters ahead of the midterm elections, three teams of disinformation researchers said. NBC News&#8217; Ryan Reilly reports on how the fake videos are targeting Democratic and Republican candidates who have been supportive of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian operatives are most likely trying to meddle in the Senate race in Texas in the most prominent example yet of a foreign effort to mislead voters ahead of the midterm elections, three teams of disinformation researchers said. NBC News&#8217; Ryan Reilly reports on how the fake videos are targeting Democratic and Republican candidates who &#8230; <a title=\"Russian operative likely behind fake videos targeting Texas Senate candidate James Talarico\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/russian-operative-likely-behind-fake-videos-targeting-texas-senate-candidate-james-talarico\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Russian operative likely behind fake videos targeting Texas Senate candidate James Talarico\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}