https://www.wired.com/story/project-good-old-usa-russia-2024-election/
"In late August 2023, Ilya Gambashidze was in a conference room at the office
of Social Design Agency, a Russian IT company he founded that is based in
Moscow, close to the world-renowned Moscow Conservatory. Gambashidze was
relatively unknown in Russian politics at the time, but just a month earlier
his name had appeared on a Council of the European Union’s list of Russian
nationals subjected to sanctions for playing a central role in a sprawling
disinformation campaign against Ukraine.
In the conference room, Gambashidze was laying out his plans for a new target:
Along with his colleagues, he began drafting what would become known as the
Good Old USA Project. The project was supposed to influence the outcome of the
US presidential election in favor of former president Donald Trump,
specifically targeting certain minorities, swing-state residents, and online
gamers, among others, in a scheme that included a full-time team dedicated to
the cause.
On Wednesday, Gambashidze and his company were named by the US Department of
Justice among the architects of a disinformation campaign known as Doppelganger
that has for the past two years been targeting Ukraine and, more recently, US
elections. The Doppelganger campaign uses AI-generated content on dozens of
fake websites designed to impersonate mainstream media outlets such as
The
Washington Post and
Fox Business, using a network of fake social media
accounts to disseminate pro-Russian narratives targeting audiences across the
globe. Doppelganger is a Kremlin-aligned disinformation campaign that was first
linked to the Kremlin in 2023 by the French government.
On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced the seizure of 32 internet
domains it says are linked to the Doppelganger campaign which violate US money
laundering and criminal trademark laws."
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