The United States on Friday released a U.S. intelligence assessment sent to more than 100 countries that found Moscow is using spies, social media and Russian state-run media to erode public faith in the integrity of democratic elections worldwide.

The United States on Friday released a U.S. intelligence assessment sent to more than 100 countries that found Moscow is using spies, social media and Russian state-run media to erode public faith in the integrity of democratic elections worldwide.

“This is a global phenomenon,” said the assessment. “Our information indicates that senior Russian government officials, including the Kremlin, see value in this type of influence operation and perceive it to be effective.”

A senior State Department official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said that Russia was encouraged to intensify its election influence operations by its success in amplifying disinformation about the 2020 U.S. election and the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • spiderplant@lemm.eeEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    Iraq, Afghanistan, maiden coup, Palestine, Philippines, Syria, Libya and probably more that I don’t know off the top of my head.

    Weird you had to specify Latin American democracies

    Edit: saw someone linked about a US backed coup in Latin America in 2020 so the 40 years without meddling in Latin America isn’t even true 🤣 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/18/silence-us-backed-coup-evo-morales-bolivia-american-states

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Lmao that opinion article you linked is not talking about the US, but about the international, heavily central-and-south American OAS.

      “America” is a pair of continents, not just a country.

      https://www.oas.org/en/about/who_we_are.asp

      Also here is the actual US involvement, from the article

      This week Jan Schakowsky and Jesús “Chuy” García of the US Congress recently called for that body to “investigate the role of the OAS in Bolivia over the past year, and ensure that taxpayers’ dollars do not contribute to the overthrow of democratically elected governments, civil conflict, or human rights violations”.

      • spiderplant@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        So an organisation the US is a member of, contributes to financially and has a large amount of influence in has blocked the democratic election of a Latin American leader. Allowed the installment of a temporary leader that they like. The current US president at the time vocally backing the organisation mentioned above and regurgitating the misinformation pushed by that organisation.

        The only involvement you saw was a couple of congress members calling for the US to investigate and calling for the US to promise not do what they have always done, starting now.

        Did you even read the article?

        Also nice of you to ignore the first half of my original comment.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Your comment wasn’t very good so I didn’t feel the need to address it.