The U. S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on organizations in Iran and Russia, which had attempted to interfere in the 2024 U. S. election.
It said that a subordinate organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Moscow-based affiliate organization of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), along with its director, attempted to stoke socio-political tensions and influence the U.S. electorate.
“The governments of Iran and Russia have attacked our electoral processes and establishments and have tried to divide other American people through specific misinformation campaigns,” said Bradley T. Smith, Undersecretary of the Treasury of Treorism and Monetary Intelligence, Bradley T .
“The United States will stand up to adversaries who would undermine our democracy. “The Cognitive Design Production Center is a subsidiary organization of the IRGC.
Since at least 2023, says the Treasury Department, it has planned influence operations designed to incite socio-political tensions among the U.S. electorate.
Meanwhile, the Center for Geopolitical Experience, based in Moscow, founded through Aleksandr Dugin, has led and the creation and publication of deep defenders and misinformation extended over electoral candidates.
It used generative AI tools to create disinformation and share it across a massive network of websites designed to imitate legitimate news outlets. The idea was to create false corroboration between the stories, as well as to obfuscate their Russian origin.
The organization also said that the Treasury’s Office for Foreign Assets Control has manipulated a video to produce “founding allegations regarding a vice presidential candidate in 2024,” without specifying which one.
The sanctions will see all U. S. assets and interests in the U. S. U. S. On the assets of blocked criminals, with penalties also imaginable opposed to monetary establishments and others dealing with sanctioned persons.
This includes the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any designated person, or the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
“Today’s sanctions are in many previous movements of the US government that have interrupted Iran’s attempts to undermine confidence in our democratic establishments and the global malignant influence of Russia and cyber illegal activity,” said the spokesman for the State Department of The United States, Matthew Miller.
“The United States continues to largely monitor the efforts of malicious actors to influence or interfere with the integrity of our elections. We continue to announce the duty of the sponsored actors through the State they review to undermine the confidence of the confidence of the confidence of the confidence of the confidence of the confidence of the Confidence of the confidence of the confidence of the confidence of the confidence of the confidence of the confidence of the confidence of public confidence in our democratic institutions.
Last summer, the Future recorded cybersecurity society said it had discovered that a network of influence related to Russia uses non -authentic Internet sites and a generative AI to verify to influence the result of the elections.
And in October, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a Joint Statement Preventing Election Interference, highlighting imitation of national media such as the Washington Post and Fox News, such as the creation of fake sites that present themselves as valid media organizations and the use of paid influencers.
“The final purpose of the sanctions is to punish, but cause a positive change in behavior,” said the Treasury Department.
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