The US accuses Russia of meddling in the presidential election

2024-09-05 10:01:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

The US accuses Russia of meddling in the presidential election

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Washington reacts with sanctions against Russian state television RT. The US accuses Russia of interfering with deliberate disinformation to influence the presidential election race. The Kremlin, through its state media, among other influencers from the US who have no idea, has made them use Russian propaganda, said Justice Minister Merrick Garland. Therefore, sanctions and confiscations of the relevant internet domains have been decreed. Affected, according to this information, are the representatives of the Russian state media RT. Garland said Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle has instructed Russian public relations firms to promote "disinformation and the state narrative as part of a campaign to influence the 2024 US presidential election."

Artificial Intelligence and Deep Fakes

The Ministry of Justice stated that Russian state-backed actors have long been using a variety of tools, such as artificial intelligence (AI), Deep Fakes and deliberate disinformation, to undermine trust in US election-related processes and institutions. . Among others, the editor-in-chief of RT Margarita Simonjan, as well as other persons from the management staff of this media were affected by the sanctions. As a result of the sanctions, the assets of those affected in the USA have been frozen. Businesses with them are prohibited to US citizens. Even international businesses will be made difficult by the sanctions against the affected persons.

These are not the first accusations of this kind. Since the previous presidential elections in the USA, Moscow, according to official data from the USA, has intervened. According to the US secret services, Russia in the 2020 election was committed to the Republican Donald Trump by trying to damage the Democrat Joe Biden. Moscow wanted to influence the outcome of the elections and sow discontent in the country, according to a secret service report. Even in the 2016 elections, Russia, according to the conviction of the security authorities in the USA, intervened in favor of the candidate Trump to restrain the Democrat Hillary Clinton. A special counsel later investigated possible collusion between Russia and the Trump team. But there was not enough evidence for this./ DW