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.
That’s a nice idea, but about 10 years too late.
Late, and feeble - they’re blocking 32 domains.
They’re blocking less than 1% of what piefed.social blocks.
Yeah guess it’s better that they don’t do anything at all.
10 years is pretty quick for government. I live in DC.
Romney tried to warn us.
Turn off Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube?
really just all social media
Lemmy is social media.
exactly.
You heard the Lemming. Off.
Yup. We got pro-Russian mods here on Lemmy as well.
Don’t we… Davel?
What does YouTube have to do with this? I’m on YT quite a bit watching a wide array of content and I’ve yet to see anything thing Pro-Trump or Pro-Russian.
It’s there, I also watched a wide variety of YT and it’s full of pro Russian and pro trump junk
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.
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.
it is made political by people who deny it as part of their identity.
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.
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?
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).
Which is what will happen if you maintain a well curated feed. But most people don’t apply ‘dont recommend channel’ at the first sign of bullshit, so their feeds get filled with it in the fullness of time.
I do! I kept spamming do not recommend on the shorts and it keeps pushing shit like that haha.
Do not recommend on videos doesn’t work in my experience, you have to do not recommend channel and then be consistent about not clicking on it when other similar content comes up
I accidentally started a video way outside my usual feed. It was some right wing fascist starting to talk about replacement theory bullshit. I closed it fast, but it was like a starter gun for YT to race every kind of conspiracy theory, right wing, Nazi supporting, women hating, christofascist channel it could try out to me. I had to block channel after channel for weeks until it gave up.
It’s hard because I would usually consume their videos on mobile. But instead I’ve just cut YT out of my life.
I don’t even do that! I’ve just never spent any time watching political stuff on YT so presumably the algorithm knows I’m not interested in it and doesn’t show it to me.
yeah the issue is for people who do show an interest in politics, the algorithm is designed to hold their attention as long as possible, and that means more and more radicalized content.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html
seizing of web domains that U.S. officials say the Kremlin uses to spread propaganda and disinformation
Maybe they could start with X/Twitter and Facebook.
AIPAC has spent $100m influencing US elections this year to ensure their preferred candidates win and we are supposed to believe Russia is the threat?
Both things can be true.
And only 1 is being addressed
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of good.
No one’s talking about perfect, We’re only talking about a level playing field.
Yeah, money is politics is bad. Also, foreign governments interfering in our elections is bad. You discovered the principle of more than one thing can be bad at once.
There are levels of bad, $100m in elections is by far worse
No, fire hose of misinformation is worse. $100m buys a few races, maybe. Fire hose breaks down an entire societies’ trust in reality.
Seriously? Your response to this is a whataboutism. And the topic is regarding Russian disinformation campaigns. Was the irony intended?
It needs to be addressed because one is being blatantly ignored, and the one being ignored is the larger of the threats
The kleptocracy trying to get Trump elected (which means Palestine gets wiped out) is the less dangerous threat?
Yeah I’m good. Have fun reposting this same broken logic talking point I’ve seen multiple .ml accounts spewing today.
If you haven’t noticed, Palestine is currently getting wiped out. I never claimed that Trump was a lesser evil or lesser threat because lesser evil or lesser threat does not exist
Less dangerous, are you fucking serious?
You’re sacrificing Palestinians to genocide that you are largely responsible for it being able to happen at all, and your argument is ‘Well it’s a less dangerous threat to me’.
Have some empathy.
Pointing out a more blatant and damaging form of election influence is not whataboutism.
Uh-oh. I don’t think taking away their main supporter will make magats very happy.
Why did they wait so long?
Good, I guess.
It would have been better to start a year ago,though
They did. They’re just announcing some of what they’ve been doing now.
Can’t wait for them to domain-seize Facebook and Xitter
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That’s funny because NYT is pro trump disinformation source as well.
How so?
The Petty Feud Between the NYT and the White House.
They also blindly published unverified stories and exaggerations about the october 7 hamas atrocities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_controversies
So you’re concluding that NYT is maga now because you don’t agree with how they covered Israel/hamas?
Jesus Christ.
Well that might be overstating it. But their constant attacks on Biden while staying silent on Trump is them not fighting fascism. Pretty standard for neoliberals. Maybe I shouldn’t single them out since I hate all the billionaire owned newspapers. THEY are the reason for creating the fertile ground that Trump could use with their decades and decades of shit reporting and disinformation and bias. They are the reason we can’t and won’t do anything against climate change.
More for the NYT:
Anti-Trans NYT Article Gets It’s Facts Horrendously Wrong
New York Times Publishes Shockingly Racist OpEd By Thomas Friedman
https://www.youtube.com/@TheMajorityReport/search?query=new york times
I’m a huge Biden guy. Love him. NYT throwing him into the fire was fucked up but it did give dems a better shot at the White House in 2025. Unintended fortune perhaps, but Biden was losing it until he dropped out.
I sub to WaPo and NYT. Most of their stuff is fine but everyone once in a while you’ll get a jaw dropper. Hell, even CNN was coddling to Trump not long ago.
I’m a huge Biden guy. Love him.
How can you love someone who is so adamantly defending and enabling a genocide?
Fuck it, nuke the Kremlin. Do it on putlers bday so his barely-human spawn turns to ash, too.
