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.

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  • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    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?

    • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Seriously? Your response to this is a whataboutism. And the topic is regarding Russian disinformation campaigns. Was the irony intended?

      • hark@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Pointing out a more blatant and damaging form of election influence is not whataboutism.

      • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        It needs to be addressed because one is being blatantly ignored, and the one being ignored is the larger of the threats

        • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
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          4 months ago

          The kleptocracy trying to get Trump elected (which means Palestine gets wiped out) is the less dangerous threat?

          Yeah I’m good. Have fun reposting this same broken logic talking point I’ve seen multiple .ml accounts spewing today.

          • OutForARip@lemmy.ca
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            4 months ago

            Less dangerous, are you fucking serious?

            You’re sacrificing Palestinians to genocide that you are largely responsible for it being able to happen at all, and your argument is ‘Well it’s a less dangerous threat to me’.

            Have some empathy.

          • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml
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            4 months ago

            If you haven’t noticed, Palestine is currently getting wiped out. I never claimed that Trump was a lesser evil or lesser threat because lesser evil or lesser threat does not exist

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, money is politics is bad. Also, foreign governments interfering in our elections is bad. You discovered the principle of more than one thing can be bad at once.