How Russia, China and Iran Are Interfering in the Presidential Election, Sheera Frenkel, Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers (New York Times 10/29/2024) - published November 1, 2024

Below please find much of the above-referenced article. It's especially important to know social media is not really protecting us so it's up to us and our government to tell our people as loudly and as often as possible that there are a lot of lies going around and those lies are designed by Putin and his allies to steal our Presidency and slaughter us. Our Supreme Court and parts of our Congress Putin already owns. If we let him steal our Presidency, he will slaughter us.

See what's happening to Palestinian, Lebanese, Israeli and Iranian civilians. That's Putin destroying the quality of life of millions of innocent people so he can install Trump into our Presidency and slaughter us. He's got the Israeli government bombing Palestinians, Lebanese and Iranians. He's got Iranian back-benchers furious so in five years or less when Putin gives them nuclear bomb capability, he can enslave Israelis by deploying Iranians to threaten Israelis with nuclear war. Currently he's stringing the Israeli government along because he needs them to help him install Trump. If Americans let Putin install Trump, life as we know it is over. You don't want the Putin Holocaust experience. In addition to the Israeli government attacking multiple enemies, Houthis are attacking, backed by Putin, and Iran and Hezbollah are doing their best to attack. It's a mess. Putin loves a mess. It's easier for him to spread lies.

“When Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, spreading divisive and inflammatory posts online to stoke outrage, its posts were brash and riddled with spelling errors and strange syntax. They were designed to get attention by any means necessary. “Hilary is a Satan,” one Russian-made Facebook post read."

"Now, eight years later, foreign interference in American elections has become far more sophisticated, and more difficult to track.……."

"The utility of commercially available A.I. tools can be seen in the efforts of John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Florida who now lives in Russia after fleeing criminal charges in the United States."

"Working from an apartment in Moscow, he has created scores of websites posting as American news outlets and used them to publish disinformation, effectively doing by himself the work that, eight years ago, would have involved an army of bots. Mr. Dougan’s sites have circulated several disparaging claims about Ms. Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, according to NewsGuard, a company that has tracked them in detail.……."

“Last month, Russia was caught obscuring its attempt to influence Americans by secretly backing a group of conservative American commentators employed through Tenet Media, a digital platform created in Tennessee in 2023."

"The company served as a seemingly legitimate facade for publishing scores of videos with pointed political commendatory as well as conspiracy theories about election fraud, Covid-19, immigrants and Russia’s war with Ukraine. Even the influencers who were covertly paid for their appearances on Tenet said they did not know the money came from Russia.……."

"The new tactics have made it harder for government agencies and tech companies to find and remove the influence campaigns – all while emboldening other hostile states, said Graham Brookie, the senior director at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab."

“Where there is more malign foreign influence activity, it creates more surface area, ore permission for other bad actors to jump into that space,” he said. If all of them are doing it, then the costs for exposure is not as high.”

"The foreign disinformation has exploded as tech giants have all but given up their efforts to combat disinformation. The largest companies, including Meta, Google, OpenAI and Microsoft, have scaled back their attempts to label and remove disinformation since the last presidential elections. Others have no teams in place at all."

"The lack of cohesive policy among the tech companies has made it impossible to form a united front against foreign disinformation, security officials and executives at tech companies said."

“These alternative platforms don’t have the same degree of content moderation and robust trust and safety practices that could potentially mitigate these campaigns,” said Mr. Lesser of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies....."