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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    • Rimu
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      183 months ago

      Late, and feeble - they’re blocking 32 domains.

      They’re blocking less than 1% of what piefed.social blocks.

    • @[email protected]
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      3 months ago

      Yeah guess it’s better that they don’t do anything at all.

      10 years is pretty quick for government. I live in DC.

    • @AbidanYre
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      73 months ago

      Romney tried to warn us.