Big ol' Russian misinfo campaign
2024-09-05 21:00:11.509176+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
If you've noticed an uptick in franticness about "deep state" from your Russian apologist acquaintances....
US Department of Justice: Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests. In addition to being involved in the editorial direction,
Between in or about October 2023 and in or about August 2024, RT sent wire transfers to U.S. Company-1 totaling approximately $9.7 million, which represented nearly 90% of U.S. Company-1’s bank deposits from all sources combined.
Though the US DOJ didn't name the company in question, it's widely reported to be Tenet Media (Wired, Mother Jones).
Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social points out an Elon Musk trait.
US DOJ: Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere. From the affidavit.
The cybersquatted domains used by Doppelganger generally are not indexed by search engines. A visit to the standalone domain, such as www.washingtonpost[.]pm, reveals a blank page or an error page. Rather, as its primary method of distribution, Doppelganger created fraudulent social media personas impersonating U.S. citizens to post article-specific extended hyperlinks to the cybersquatted domains on those social media platforms.
The actual domain names start on p70 of the affidavit...