DOJ seizes ‘bot farm’ operated by the Russian government
by Gaby Del Valle from The Verge - All Posts on (#6P3FP)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it seized two domain names and more than 900 social media accounts it claims were part of an AI-enhanced" Russian bot farm. Many of the accounts were designed to look like they belonged to Americans and posted content about the Russia-Ukraine war, including videos in which Russian President Vladimir Putin justified Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Justice Department claims that an employee of RT - Russia's state media outlet - was behind the bot farm. RT's leadership signed off on a plan to use the bot farm to distribute information on a wide-scale basis," amplifying the publication's reach on social media," an FBI agent alleged in an affidavit. To set up the bot farm, the employee...