Election Interference Sanctions

announced against Russia and Iran. go figure..nothing to see here

Russian and Iranian entities sanctioned for 2024 election interference attempts - Alternet.org

Citing "deepfakes" and "targeted disinformation campaigns," the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Tuesday sanctions against affiliates of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), alleging they "aimed to stoke socio-political tensions and influence the U.S. electorate during the 2024 U.S. election." Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz may have been the target of one such effort, according to a previous Washington Post report.
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Treasury adds that the Moscow-based Center for Geopolitical Expertise (CGE) "directs and subsidizes the creation and publication of deepfakes and circulated disinformation about candidates in the U.S. 2024 general election. CGE personnel work directly with a GRU unit that oversees sabotage, political interference operations, and cyberwarfare targeting the West."

"At the direction of, and with financial support from, the GRU, CGE and its personnel used generative AI tools to quickly create disinformation that would be distributed across a massive network of websites designed to imitate legitimate news outlets to create false corroboration between the stories, as well as to obfuscate their Russian origin," the Treasury Dept. said. "In addition to using generative AI to construct and disseminate disinformation targeting the U.S. electorate in the lead up to the U.S. 2024 general election, CGE also manipulated a video it used to produce baseless accusations concerning a 2024 vice presidential candidate in an effort to sow discord amongst the U.S. electorate."
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In October, The Washington Post reported that a "former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post."

 

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