# OpenAI — Operation “Trolling Stone”: Russia-linked influence activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-02-01
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-trolling-stone
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11670-operation-trolling-stone-russia-linked-influence-activity
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI banned accounts linked to a previously unreported influence operation called "Trolling Stone," which used AI to generate comments about an alleged Russian cult leader's arrest in Argentina.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-trolling-stone:

> OpenAI banned accounts linked to a previously unreported operation we dubbed "Trolling Stone", using AI to generate comments about an alleged Russian cult leader’s arrest in Argentina.

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