Kenyan political operator used Claude to mass-produce election propaganda, Anthropic says

A Kenyan political operator used Anthropic’s chatbot Claude to mass-produce social media posts praising government officials and targeting opposition figures ahead of the 2027 general election, the company said in a report . Anthropic said the operation did not reach or influence real people. But its discovery offers an early glimpse of how generative AI could shape Kenya’s political ecosystem ahead of the next election, enabling actors to manufacture coordinated propaganda that looks like it ca