United States Division of State stated earlier this week that it’s providing a reward of as much as $10 million for info on any international particular person or entity who has engaged or is participating in interference within the 2024 U.S. presidential election set to be held on Nov. 5.
What Occurred: The award shall be provided underneath the division’s Rewards for Justice program. Any info resulting in the identification and site of the interferer in addition to info resulting in the prevention or decision of an act of international election interference shall be rewarded, the division stated.
The announcement from the division’s Rewards for Justice program particularly talked about Rybar LLC, a Russian media group.
Rybar, the division stated, obtained funds for contracted work from Russian protection industrial group Rostec, which was sanctioned by the U.S. Division of the Treasury in June 2022.
Rybar’s Operations: Rybar has sought to “sow discord, promote social division, stoke partisan and racial discord, and encourage hate and violence in the USA” by its social media channels, the announcement stated. It manages the social media channels #HOLDTHELINE and #STANDWTHTEXAS to advertise Russia’s political pursuits, along with TEXASvsUSA channel on social media platform X, it added.
The division additionally named 9 people who it says labored to hold out Rybar’s operations geared toward impacting the U.S. electoral course of.
These with information of those people or their actions can contact Rewards for Justice through its tip line, it added.
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