In the final days before Tuesday's vote, Russia abandoned any pretense that it was not trying to interfere in the American presidential election. The Kremlin's information warriors not only produced a late wave of fabricated videos that targeted the electoral process and the Democratic presidential ticket but also no longer bothered to hide their role in producing them. A fabricated interview claiming election fraud in Arizona was conducted by the director of a Kremlin think tank, Mira Terada, who returned to Russia in 2021 after serving a prison sentence in the United States for money laundering.
That's the thing—it feels so impotent, said David Salvo, a former State Department official who is now managing the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. I mean, all we can do at the moment really is call it out. This year's election underlined how much foreign interference and disinformation generally has become baked into American politics.
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