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"The White House’s recent exposure of Russian attempts to influence this year’s
US presidential election will come as little surprise to anyone who followed
disinformation tactics during the last US election.
During the 2020 campaign, the Kremlin used its state-sponsored media outlets,
the international television channel
RT and the news website and radio
station
Sputnik, to pump out a raft of content calling the legitimacy of the
US democratic process into question. Networks of Russia-sponsored bots and
trolls were also found to have been pushing divisive disinformation and
conspiracy theories in online networks.
This time around, the US has seized a network of Russian-run internet domains,
and sanctioned ten people including Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of
RT
(formerly
Russia Today), for “activities that aim to deteriorate public trust
in our institutions”. Sanctions include freezing any property or assets in the
US, and potentially restrictions on any US citizen or company that works with
them.
The US has also charged two Moscow-based managers of
RT, Konstantin
Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, under money laundering law with paying US
content creators to push out “pro-Russia propaganda and disinformation” in the
US.
US attorney general Merrick Garland said Russia was looking to create its
“preferred outcome” in the upcoming presidential election, and undermine US
support for Ukraine in the war.
The practices alleged by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) closely match what
my co-authors and I have identified in our new book,
Russia, Disinformation
and the Liberal Order, as having become standard practice in Russian attempts
to influence international audiences.
Here are five key features of Russian information manipulation we identified,
and which can help understand the latest election-meddling scandal."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
