American spy agencies have assessed that the Kremlin favors former President Donald J. Trump, seeing him as skeptical of U.S. support for Ukraine.

The United States on Wednesday announced a broad effort to push back on Russian influence campaigns in the 2024 election, trying to curb the Kremlin’s use of state-run media and fake news sites to sway American voters.

The actions include sanctions, indictments and seizing of web domains that U.S. officials say the Kremlin uses to spread propaganda and disinformation about Ukraine, which Russia invaded more than two years ago.

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Wednesday announced actions by the Justice Department, including the indictment of two Russian employees of RT, the state-owned broadcaster, who used a company in Tennessee to spread content, and the takedown of a Russian malign influence campaign known as Doppelganger.

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    4 months ago

    It’s there, I also watched a wide variety of YT and it’s full of pro Russian and pro trump junk

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
      27·
      4 months ago

      The closest I get to watching political content on YT is Peter Zeihan so the algorithm simply doesn’t put political junk in my feed. If you’re getting tons of politics, from either direction, in your feed its probably because you are watching political content on YT.

      That’s the best explanation I can come up with about why our experiences are so different.

      • takeda@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        Wouldn’t you be able to say the same thing about Facebook and Twitter?

        The issue with those networks is that they don’t react to reports. They also don’t allow to downvote.

        It is especially visible with YouTube which had downvoting from the start and decided to remove it despite user protests.

        They are tuned to promote controversial topics, which disinformation thrives with.

        • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Wouldn’t you be able to say the same thing about Facebook and Twitter?

          I don’t know. I haven’t used Xitter since before Elon took it over and I’m only on FB once every couple of months.

          It is especially visible with YouTube which had downvoting from the start and decided to remove it despite user protests.

          Wait, you don’t have a thumbs down button on YouTube?

          • takeda@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Wait, you don’t have a thumbs down button on YouTube?

            I mean statistics. Now it makes it easier to simply ignore it and promote video to others despite it being unpopular (for example conspiracies).

      • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        I do my best to avoid it, but I do watch things related to climate change, which for some reason some people thing is political.