The US has issued sanctions on Russian and Iranian organizations for attempting to interfere in the 2024 presidential election. The Treasury Department said on Tuesday The groups tried to “inflame socio-political tensions” and influence voters.
One group, the Moscow-based Center for Geopolitical Expertise, has ties to Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), and hosted its own AI tools “to avoid foreign web-hosting services that would block their activity.” Created a server to do this. The organization then used these tools to “quickly generate misinformation”, allowing it to spread to dozens of fake online news outlets, as well as forcing US-based companies to maintain their own AI servers and “at least 100 Funds were also provided to operate a network of “websites”. Its campaign.
Additionally, the Russian organization manipulated a video to “make unfounded allegations regarding the 2024 vice presidential candidate.” In October, America accused Russia Making a video that attempted to defame Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris's running mate.
The Treasury Department also sanctioned the Cognitive Design Production Center, a subsidiary of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), for planning to interfere in elections “through at least 2023.” In the weeks before the election, the U.S. Justice Department indicted Iranian nationals At the same time, accused of cyber attack against the campaign of newly elected President Donald Trump. OpenAI reported banning ChatGPT accounts Linked to an Iranian influence operation.
“The governments of Iran and Russia have targeted our election processes and institutions and sought to divide the American people through targeted disinformation campaigns,” Bradley Smith, acting Under Secretary of State for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said in the press release. “