U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election. (NY Times)

In 2016, Facebook posts by Russian Internet Research Agency sought to elect DONALD JOHN TRUMP. Those ham handed efforts continue, as alleged in the indictments, and are being reported.  From The New York Times:

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.

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland with Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, and Lisa O. Monaco, the deputy attorney general, at a meeting of the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force in Washington on Wednesday.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times

By Julian E. BarnesGlenn Thrush and Steven Lee Myers

The reporters have been covering election influence efforts and misinformation.

• Sept. 4, 2024
  
  The United States on Wednesday announced a broad effort to push back on Russian influence campaigns in the 2024 election, as it tries 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 detailed the actions taken by the Justice Department. They include 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 Doppelgänger.“The American people are entitled to know when a foreign power engages in political activities or seeks to influence public discourse,” Mr. Garland said.
  

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