If they are using GPL code, shouldn’t they also release their source code?
Putin is a former KGB agent. He’s good at the things that the KGB were good at, because that’s how he was trained. Foreign influence is one of those things that he’s very good at thanks to that training, and Russia has been good at for a very long time, actually. So it’s kind of one of Russia’s core competencies.
Lots of reports of massive funding by Russia in influence campaigns.
It’s more the news media they are referring to, I think.