{"id":384,"date":"2024-09-05T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T07:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=384"},"modified":"2024-09-05T07:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T07:22:49","slug":"white-house-seizes-32-domains-issues-criminal-charges-in-massive-election-meddling-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/white-house-seizes-32-domains-issues-criminal-charges-in-massive-election-meddling-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration on Wednesday seized 32 websites and charged two employees of a state-owned media outlet connected to a $10 million scheme to distribute pro-Kremlin propaganda, and claimed the actions were necessary to counter Russia\u2019s attempts to influence the upcoming US presidential election. This is all part of the ongoing Doppelg\u00e4nger operation \u2013 a Russian-government-backed influence campaign that has been active since at least 2017. It uses a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/08\/30\/meta_coordinated_inauthentic_behaviour_report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">network of &#8220;thousands&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0of phony social media accounts, fake-news websites and deepfakes to influence American voters and spread pro-Moscow messaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s called Doppelg\u00e4nger because it uses typosquatted domains \u2013 sites with names that are close to legitimate ones &#8211; such as washingtonpost.<em>pm<\/em>\u00a0rather than the real washingtonpost.<em>com<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 to trick viewers into believing they are reading and watching content produced by reputable news orgs. But as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/d9\/2024-09\/exhibit_1_washingtonpost.pm__1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">screenshots<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/white-house-seizes-32-domains-issues-criminal-charges-in-massive-election-meddling-crackdown\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/09\/05\/biden_cracks_down_on_putins\/\">Biden cracks down on Putin&#8217;s election meddling \u2022 The Register<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration on Wednesday seized 32 websites and charged two employees of a state-owned media outlet connected to a $10 million scheme to distribute pro-Kremlin propaganda, and claimed the actions were necessary to counter Russia\u2019s attempts to influence the upcoming US presidential election. This is all part of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[31,9],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-geopolitics","tag-31","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}