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U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election

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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ThirdWorldOrder ,

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

www.nytimes.com/…/russia-election-influence.html?…

superkret ,

That’s a nice idea, but about 10 years too late.

AbidanYre ,

Romney tried to warn us.

ThirdWorldOrder ,

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

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

kent_eh ,

Good, I guess.

It would have been better to start a year ago,though

lennybird ,
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They did. They’re just announcing some of what they’ve been doing now.

EmpireInDecay ,

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?

slumlordthanatos ,

Both things can be true.

EmpireInDecay ,

And only 1 is being addressed

chuckleslord ,

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.

EmpireInDecay ,

There are levels of bad, $100m in elections is by far worse

chuckleslord ,

No, fire hose of misinformation is worse. $100m buys a few races, maybe. Fire hose breaks down an entire societies’ trust in reality.

Zipitydew ,

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

sin_free_for_00_days ,

Uh-oh. I don’t think taking away their main supporter will make magats very happy.

T00l_shed ,

Turn off Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube?

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

really just all social media

Buelldozer ,
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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.

T00l_shed ,

It’s there, I also watched a wide variety of YT and it’s full of pro Russian and pro trump junk

Buelldozer ,
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The closest I get to watching political content on YT is Peter Zeihan so the algorithm simply doesn’t put political junk in my feed. If you’re getting tons of politics, from either direction, in your feed its probably because you are watching political content on YT.

That’s the best explanation I can come up with about why our experiences are so different.

T00l_shed ,

I do my best to avoid it, but I do watch things related to climate change, which for some reason some people thing is political.

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

it is made political by people who deny it as part of their identity.

osaerisxero ,

Which is what will happen if you maintain a well curated feed. But most people don't apply 'dont recommend channel' at the first sign of bullshit, so their feeds get filled with it in the fullness of time.

Buelldozer ,
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I don’t even do that! I’ve just never spent any time watching political stuff on YT so presumably the algorithm knows I’m not interested in it and doesn’t show it to me.

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

yeah the issue is for people who do show an interest in politics, the algorithm is designed to hold their attention as long as possible, and that means more and more radicalized content.

www.nytimes.com/…/youtube-radical.html

T00l_shed ,

I do! I kept spamming do not recommend on the shorts and it keeps pushing shit like that haha.

osaerisxero ,

Do not recommend on videos doesn't work in my experience, you have to do not recommend channel and then be consistent about not clicking on it when other similar content comes up

T00l_shed ,

It’s hard because I would usually consume their videos on mobile. But instead I’ve just cut YT out of my life.

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