How Russia Openly Escalated Its Election Interference Efforts
Briefly

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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