OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin content including a think tank with researchers who say they were falsely affiliated | Fortune0

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• August 28, 2026

OpenAI banned a “cluster” of ChatGPT accounts that it claims were part of a pro-Russia operation aimed at bashing Western countries and promoting a think tank with misattributed academic research.  The company said in a blog post this week that the banned ChatGPT users used VPNs to get around its restriction on Russian users and