…in recent months I have repeatedly warned that Russian #tyrant & #WarCriminal #Putin intended to mess w/the #US #election to help #Trump once again.… This wk, …the #DOJ outlined elaborate schemes mounted by covert Moscow operators to #influence the 2024 election. But… the feds declined to explicitly state the obvious:The #Kremlin efforts have been designed & mounted to aid Trump’s bid to regain #power.”

#ForeignInfluenceCampaign #disinformation
#law #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #HarrisWalz2024

4 yrs ago, the #Senate Intelligence Cmte UNANIMOUSLY endorsed the #US #intelligence community’s conclusion that #Russia intervened in the 2016 election in an effort to boost #Trump.

But Trump, who has repeatedly described the probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election as a “hoax,” is dismissing them this time around, too.

In conjunction w/the domain seizures, the US #Treasury Dept announced the designation of 10 individuals & 2 entities as part of a coordinated response to #Russia’s #MalignInfluence efforts targeting the 2024 U.S. presidential election. This announcement follows the designation of actors involved in #Doppelganger announced by Treasury in March.

#Propaganda #ForeignInfluenceCampaign #DOJ #law #Election #ElectionInterference #MediaLiteracy
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/doppelganger_affidavit_9.4.24.pdf

As alleged in an unsealed affidavit, Russian companies #SDA, #Structura, & #ANO Dialog, operating under the direction & control of [#Putin] the Russian Presidential Admin, & in particular First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Exec Office Sergei Vladilenovich Kiriyenko, used these domains, among others, to covertly spread #Russia #propaganda w/the aim of reducing support for #Ukraine, bolstering pro-Russian policies & interests, & influencing #voters….

A related site aimed at #conservatives, “#SavannahTime”, writes on #Republican #politics & #LGBTQ issues. Some of the sites use #AI to plagiarize content from US sites, the company said. The “about us” blurb on the site reads, “We’re opinionated, we’re noisy, & we’re having a good time.”

#Iran #MediaLiteracy #ForeignInfluenceCampaign #ElectionInterference #USpol

The #Iran-built news networks include a site launched in Oct called “#NioThinker”, which focused on the #Israel-#Hamas #war before it started to publish articles on the coming #US #election. It takes a #liberal slant, calling #Trump an “opioid-pilled elephant in the MAGA china shop,” acc/to the report from Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center.