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Story summary
- OpenAI shut down Russian and Iranian operations that used ChatGPT to create fake journalist personas.
- The Iranian network ran seven journalist profiles posing as Western writers.
- OpenAI found nearly 100 long-form articles published in about a dozen small-to-medium outlets.
- Articles ran from July 2025 to October 2026, with frequency rising after 2026 US-Iran war began.
- The Russian scheme co-opted unwitting Latin American staff to run the Social Research Center think-tank, producing content.