US Justice Department says it disrupted Russian social media influence operation

I blocked that Russian troll awhile ago and my feed is so much better for it. There’s a couple of em that I did the same to and I haven’t missed anything.

The campaign to keep Biden as candidate when its clear he is going to lose is the pysop.

So how would they manage to prosecute anyone if Russia goes in and buys shares of Truth Social (Trump Media Group) and keeps shoring up the price when Trump starts dumping shares after his moratorium runs out?

I'm trying to figure how this scam gets punished.

The accounts on social media platform X have since been banned.

Figures it's Xitter.

I'm seeing another paragraph between those two now, might have been updated after you posted this but the full quote is

The U.S Justice Department said on Tuesday that it disrupted a Russian operation that used fake social media accounts enhanced by artificial intelligence to covertly spread pro-Kremlin messages in the United States and abroad.

The news comes four months before the U.S. presidential election, which security experts widely believe will be the target of both hacking and covert social media influence attempts by foreign adversaries. Senior U.S. officials have said publicly they are monitoring for schemes intended to disrupt the vote.

The Justice Department secured court approval to seize two domain names and search nearly 1,000 social media accounts allegedly associated with the effort.

I wonder if centrists will ever stop feigning McCarthyist paranoia as an end-run around having defensible positions.