Justice Department Leads Efforts Among Federal, International, and Private Sector Partners to Disrupt Covert Russian Government-...
The Justice Department today announced the seizure of two domain names and the search of 968 social media accounts used by Russian actors to create an AI-enhanced social media bot farm that spread disinformation in the United States and abroad.
LEt me guess.
Telegram and RT?
According to this PDF:
-Creating authentic appearing social media personas en masse;
-Deploying content similar to typical social media users;
-Mirroring disinformation of other bot personas;
-Perpetuating the use of pre-existing false narratives to amplify malign foreign influence; and
-Formulating messages, to include the topic and framing, based on the specific archetype of the bot.