U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election
U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election
American spy agencies have assessed that the Kremlin favors former President Donald J. Trump, seeing him as skeptical of U.S. support for Ukraine.
The United States on Wednesday announced a broad effort to push back on Russian influence campaigns in the 2024 election, trying to curb the Kremlin’s use of state-run media and fake news sites to sway American voters.
The actions include sanctions, indictments and seizing of web domains that U.S. officials say the Kremlin uses to spread propaganda and disinformation about Ukraine, which Russia invaded more than two years ago.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Wednesday announced actions by the Justice Department, including the indictment of two Russian employees of RT, the state-owned broadcaster, who used a company in Tennessee to spread content, and the takedown of a Russian malign influence campaign known as Doppelganger.
That's a nice idea, but about 10 years too late.
Late, and feeble - they're blocking 32 domains.
They're blocking less than 1% of what piefed.social blocks.
Yeah guess it’s better that they don’t do anything at all.
10 years is pretty quick for government. I live in DC.
Romney tried to warn us.
Turn off Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube?
really just all social media
Yup. We got pro-Russian mods here on Lemmy as well.
Don't we... Davel?
What does YouTube have to do with this? I'm on YT quite a bit watching a wide array of content and I've yet to see anything thing Pro-Trump or Pro-Russian.
seizing of web domains that U.S. officials say the Kremlin uses to spread propaganda and disinformation
Maybe they could start with X/Twitter and Facebook.
Uh-oh. I don't think taking away their main supporter will make magats very happy.
Why did they wait so long?
Good, I guess.
It would have been better to start a year ago,though
They did. They're just announcing some of what they've been doing now.
Can't wait for them to domain-seize Facebook and Xitter
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AIPAC has spent $100m influencing US elections this year to ensure their preferred candidates win and we are supposed to believe Russia is the threat?
Seriously? Your response to this is a whataboutism. And the topic is regarding Russian disinformation campaigns. Was the irony intended?
Fuck it, nuke the Kremlin. Do it on putlers bday so his barely-human spawn turns to ash, too.
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