The Biden-Harris administration on Wednesday accused Russia of an effort to influence the 2024 presidential election, and announced charges against two Russians, among other actions.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced indictments against two Russia-based employees of RT, a Russian state-controlled media outlet, charging them with conspiring to commit money laundering and to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
“The American people are entitled to know when a foreign power is attempting to exploit our country’s free exchange of ideas in order to send around its own propaganda,” Garland said.
Garland accused Russia of using RT to “direct disinformation and propaganda.” He said that after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, RT’s editor-in-chief had an “entire empire of covert projects” designed to shape public opinion in “Western audiences.”
He accused RT and its employees of implementing a nearly $10 million scheme to fund and direct a Tennessee-based company to “publish and disseminate content deemed favorable to the Russian government.”
He said the defendants directed the company to contract with U.S.-based social media influencers to share that content on their platforms.
Garland said separately, the Justice Department will seize 32 internet domains that the Russian government and Russian sponsored actors have used to engage in “a covert campaign to interfere in and influence the outcome of our country’s elections.” (Read more: Breitbart, 9/04/2024) (Archive)
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“If we can name a favorite candidate, it used to be Joe Biden, but now he’s not participating in the election campaign.
And he recommended to all his allies to support Miss Harris, so that is what we are going to do.”… pic.twitter.com/kXD4W5udqO
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