Russia is already spreading disinformation in advance of the 2024 election, using fake online accounts and bots to damage President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats, according to former U.S. officials and cyber experts.
The dissemination of attacks on Biden is part of a continuing effort by Moscow to undercut American military aid to Ukraine and U.S. support for and solidarity with NATO, experts said.
A similar effort is underway in Europe. France, Germany and Poland said this month that Russia has launched a barrage of propaganda to try to influence European parliamentary elections in June.
With Donald Trump opposing U.S. aid to Ukraine and claiming that he once warned a NATO leader that he would "encourage" Russia to attack a NATO ally if it didn't pay its share in defense spending, the potential rewards for Russian President Vladimir Putin are high, according to Bret Schafer, a senior fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy of the German Marshall Fund.
Moscow is spreading disinformation about Joe Biden and other Democrats to lessen U.S. military aid to Ukraine and U.S. support for NATO, former U.S. officials and cyber experts say.
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One wonders if congressional Repubs, who amplified Russian disinformation by endlessly promoting the lies of FBI informant Smirnov, are secretly OK with this. I mean, who knows how much it will help Vlad's chosen candidate, and theirs, the Orange Rapist. In the 2016 election cycle Don did not discourage illegal acts by Russia on his behalf, he solicited them. All coming from the guy responsible for Navalny's death in a Russian prison. The guy Trump will not condemn. The guy he chose to believe over our intel community in Helsinki.