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The United States on Wednesday announced a broad effort to push back on Russian influence campaigns in the 2024 election, trying to curb the Kremlin’s use of state-run media and fake news sites to sway American voters.
The actions include sanctions, indictments and seizing of web domains that U.S. officials say the Kremlin uses to spread propaganda and disinformation about Ukraine, which Russia invaded more than two years ago.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Wednesday announced actions by the Justice Department, including the indictment of two Russian employees of RT, the state-owned broadcaster, who used a company in Tennessee to spread content, and the takedown of a Russian malign influence campaign known as Doppelganger.
I don’t even do that! I’ve just never spent any time watching political stuff on YT so presumably the algorithm knows I’m not interested in it and doesn’t show it to me.
yeah the issue is for people who do show an interest in politics, the algorithm is designed to hold their attention as long as possible, and that means more and more radicalized content.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html