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US accuses Russia's RT news outlet of election interference
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9/5/2024
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The Russian state media channel RT was dropped by its American distributors shortly after
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Moscow launched its full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022.
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But the Justice Department says despite that, the outlet has continued to spread misinformation
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to American voters.
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We allege that as part of that effort, RT and its employees, including the defendants,
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implemented a nearly $10 million scheme to fund and direct a Tennessee-based company
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to publish and disseminate content deemed favorable to the Russian government.
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U.S. officials say the scheme involves social media influencers who publish nearly 2,000
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videos containing Russian propaganda, some of which have garnered millions of views on
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YouTube.
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American spy agencies say the Kremlin's goal is to promote Donald Trump over Kamala Harris
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because of Trump's skepticism of U.S. support for Ukraine.
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The Justice Department also said it seized 32 Internet domains used by the Kremlin to
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spread misinformation.
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These websites were designed to appear to American readers as if they were major U.S.
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news sites like the Washington Post or Fox News.
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But in fact, they were fake sites.
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In addition to the indicted RT employees, the Treasury Department has sanctioned the
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editor-in-chief of the channel, Margarita Simonyan.
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The Kremlin's objective is not new.
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In 2016, the Justice Department charged Russians with hacking computers and releasing information
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to damage the campaign of Hillary Clinton and to help elect Donald Trump.
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The Kremlin launched a similar effort to help Trump in the run-up to the 2020 election.
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