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Duma Speaker Presents Fake 'AI Minister' Tale to Putin as Fact

The claim originated on a Croatian satire site, exposing verification gaps in the Kremlin’s information flow.

Eigentlich wollte Duma-Sprecher Wjatscheslaw Wolodin dem Kreml-Chef Wladimir Putin von den Herausforderungen berichten, die KI mit sich bringen. Allerdings tischte er seinem Chef eine Satire-Geschichte als Beispiel auf.
Duma-Chef Wolodin blamiert sich vor Putin mit erfundener KI-Bestechungsstory.

Overview

  • In a recorded briefing, Vyacheslav Volodin told Vladimir Putin that an AI appointed as a minister in an EU country had taken bribes and embezzled funds.
  • The story came from Croatian satire outlet Newsbar, which fabricated a plot about an Albanian AI named Diella accepting a 14‑Bitcoin bribe tied to a highway tender.
  • Albania is not an EU member, and reporters debunked the bribery narrative as fictional.
  • Volodin posted the meeting video on his Telegram channel with a caption claiming the incident occurred in the European Union.
  • Ukraine’s Centre for Combating Disinformation cited the episode as evidence of a troubled information environment around Russia’s leadership after the rumor circulated on Russian social media for days.