AI plot to divide opposition ahead of 2027 exposed

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📻 Breaking It Down

The operation, identified as GTG-54004, allegedly used Anthropic’s Claude AI model to mass-produce political content designed to create the impression of spontaneous grassroots support and opposition to various political figures.

According to the report, a single operator used AI to generate large volumes of social media posts, including narratives portraying the United Opposition as fractured and on the verge of collapse ahead of the 2027 elections.

“The actor used Claude across several sessions to generate batches of exactly 50 tweets, explicitly instructing the model to make posts look like spontaneous grassroots commentary rather than a coordinated campaign,” the report says.

📌 What You Need to Know

The campaign allegedly targeted Gachagua and Kenyatta as part of efforts to portray divisions within the opposition movement.

“Additionally, the network pushed stories claiming that Kenya’s United Opposition coalition was breaking apart before the 2027 general election, directly targeting politicians Rigathi Gachagua and former president Uhuru Kenyatta,” Anthropic said.

The operation also pushed favourable messaging around Wandayi, particularly over his role in halting a scheduled electricity tariff increase.

The campaign used hashtags including #PowerReliefKE and #PoweringTheNewKenya, with the AI-generated posts presented as if they were independent commentary by ordinary social media users.

The report says the operator supplied Claude with pre-drafted topics, talking points and hashtags before instructing the model to make the content appear more natural and human.

The same AI-assisted workflow was also allegedly used for commercial marketing campaigns, raising questions about whether techniques developed for advertising were being repurposed for political influence.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya

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