{"id":16136,"date":"2024-11-07T15:56:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16136"},"modified":"2024-11-07T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:26:18","slug":"how-russia-openly-escalated-its-election-interference-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16136","title":{"rendered":"How Russia Openly Escalated Its Election Interference Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kremlin did not bother to hide its efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election, as it did in the past.<\/p>\n

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In the final days before Tuesday\u2019s vote, Russia abandoned any pretense that it was not trying to interfere in the American presidential election.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin\u2019s information warriors not only produced a late wave of fabricated videos that targeted the electoral process and the Democratic presidential ticket but also no longer bothered to hide their role in producing them.<\/p>\n

A fabricated interview claiming election fraud in Arizona was conducted by the director of a Kremlin think tank, Mira Terada, who returned to Russia in 2021 after serving a prison sentence in the United States for money laundering. Another video on Rumble, the video-sharing platform, targeted the Democratic vice-presidential nominee and featured John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff from Florida who had previously denied working for the Kremlin\u2019s propaganda apparatus.<\/p>\n

What impact Russia\u2019s information campaign had on the outcome of this year\u2019s race, if any, remains uncertain. There is no doubt, though, that it reflected an increasingly brazen effort by the Kremlin, one that has left the American government with little to do to except to rebut the falsehoods as they gain popularity. More than one official compared it to the arcade game Whac-a-Mole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s the thing \u2014 it feels so impotent,\u201d said David Salvo, a former State Department official who is now managing the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. \u201cI mean, all we can do at the moment really is call it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s election underlined how much foreign interference \u2014 and disinformation generally \u2014 has become baked into American politics. Increasingly unfettered social media platforms like X and Telegram, along with the country\u2019s constitutional protections of free speech, have opened the door for foreign influence, even if American law prohibits it.<\/p>\n

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The Kremlin did not bother to hide its efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election, as it did in the past.In the final days before Tuesday\u2019s vote, Russia abandoned any pretense that it was not trying to interfere in the American presidential election.The Kremlin\u2019s information warriors not only produced a late wave of fabricated videos that targeted the electoral process and the Democratic presidential ticket but also no longer bothered to hide their role in producing them.A fabricated interview claiming election fraud in Arizona was conducted by the director of a Kremlin think tank, Mira Terada, who returned to Russia in 2021 after serving a prison sentence in the United States for money laundering. Another video on Rumble, the video-sharing platform, targeted the Democratic vice-presidential nominee and featured John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff from Florida who had previously denied working for the Kremlin\u2019s propaganda apparatus.What impact Russia\u2019s information campaign had on the outcome of this year\u2019s race, if any, remains uncertain. There is no doubt, though, that it reflected an increasingly brazen effort by the Kremlin, one that has left the American government with little to do to except to rebut the falsehoods as they gain popularity. More than one official compared it to the arcade game Whac-a-Mole.\u201cThat\u2019s the thing \u2014 it feels so impotent,\u201d said David Salvo, a former State Department official who is now managing the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. \u201cI mean, all we can do at the moment really is call it out.\u201dThis year\u2019s election underlined how much foreign interference \u2014 and disinformation generally \u2014 has become baked into American politics. Increasingly unfettered social media platforms like X and Telegram, along with the country\u2019s constitutional protections of free speech, have opened the door for foreign influence, even if American law prohibits it.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16138,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16139,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136\/revisions\/16139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}