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Blogger Viktoria Bonya has posted an AI-generated video on her Instagram in which she appears as a superhero battling propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, blogger Artemy Lebedev, and State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov.

In the clip, Bonya — cast as Spider-Man — webs Solovyov’s mouth shut, ties up Lebedev as he hurls insults, and knocks Milonov off his feet. “I’ve had enough,” she says in the video.

Within 9 hours of being posted, the video had accumulated 5 million views and 242,000 likes. In the caption, Bonya called for creating “a women’s community where we can build beauty on this planet together.”

She urged her followers to stop watching Solovyov’s programs and Lebedev’s blog, and said she was preparing a class-action lawsuit against the men who had insulted her, inviting other women who had been publicly insulted by them to join.