The fabricated story was created by the Kremlin-aligned Storm-1516, one of several disinformation efforts targeting the Harris-Walz campaign, a new report from Microsoft says.

A false report about U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris having been involved in a 2011 hit-and-run accident in San Francisco originated from an unreliable website.

Kremlin-affiliated Russian troll farms are running disinformation campaigns that aim to interfere with this year's US presidential elections, and according to Microsoft, they're focusing their efforts on discrediting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.