The United States federal government has actually approved numerous Russian people and entities for “malign influence efforts” focused on hindering the United States governmental political election in November, the Treasury and Justice divisions revealed Wednesday.
“(Russian) President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle … directed Russian public relations companies to promote disinformation and state-sponsored narratives as part of a campaign to influence the 2024 US Presidential Election,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland claimed.
The United States Treasury Department claimed Russian state-owned media network RT’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, and others connected with the network secretly hired social media sites influencers to guide United States popular opinion and spread pro-Kremlin messages.
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