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USA announced on Wednesday a series of sanctions against Russian media outlets such as the TV channel RT television and several journalists for participating in a campaign organized by Kremlin influence American presidential election.
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) US Treasury Department sanctions were imposed on Wednesday ten peopleSome of them are journalists and executives RT channelas well as two Russian organizations.
At the same time, the Ministry of Justice accused of being secret foreign agents two RT employees, and the State Department imposed visa restrictions and declared RT and its subsidiaries RIA Novosti, Sputnik or Ruptly “foreign missionsand not the media.
“Actors Sponsored Russian state have been using various tools for a long time, such as counterfeits deep artificial intelligence “create and disinformation in an attempt to undermine confidence in U.S. election processes and institutions,” the OFAC statement said.
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OFAC He said that in early 2024, the management of RT, Russia’s state-owned media outlet, “made an even more nefarious attempt to secretly recruit secret To influential people Americans” to support their “malicious influence campaign.”
Except, RT used shell company to conceal their own or the Russian government’s involvement in content intended to influence American audiences.
Among those subject to sanctions OFAC there is Margarita Simonovna Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief from RT; Elizaveta Yuryevna Brodskaya, editor Deputy Head of the Republic of Tatarstan; or Anton Sergeevich Anisimov, Deputy Director from RT.
In another simultaneous action State Department imposed sanctions on the group Media Rossiya Segodnya and its five subsidiaries (RIA Novosti, RT, TV Novosti, Ruptly and Sputnik) “for their vile activity “secret influence.”
Foreign sanctions consist of visa restrictionalthough the State Department did not identify those affected because “visa records are confidential.”
The above mentioned media “must notify To Ministry of Justice “all personnel working in the United States” and “disclose all real estate they own in the United States,” the agency said in a statement.
In addition, the Justice Department announced that Russian citizens Konstantin Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, both RT employees, were also formally charged today in the Southern District of New York for CONSPIRACY violate the Registration Act Foreign agents and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
According to the agency, RT and its employees, including the defendants, hired online commentators for $10 million in order to “pump up propaganda And disinformation in favor of Russia through social networks for the American audience.”
Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva directed from Russia, using fictitious names and front companies, a “massive plan to influence in this American public by infiltrating and covertly funding a content creation company in the United States.”
Tennessee-based content company published video in English on several social networks with commentary on events and issues in the United States.
“While the opinions expressed in the videos are not uniform, most of them are aimed at the publicly stated goals of the Russian Government and RT: to exacerbate internal discord in the United States,” the Justice Department noted.
According to the US, Kremlin increasingly adapts its efforts to hide its involvement by “developing a vast ecosystem of Russian proxy sites, fake online personas, and front organizations that create the false appearance of independent news sources unaffiliated with the Russian state.”
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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