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Justice Department says Russian disinformation campaign targeted Israel and US Jews
According to an affidavit by an anonymous FBI field agent, the campaign included instructions for a plan called “The Comprehensive Information Outreach Project in Israel (and also Jewish Community Outreach in the US).”
A Russian disinformation campaign targeted Israel and American Jews in a bid to weaken support for Ukraine, including by creating a fake version of a Jewish newspaper, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced. The FBI’s Philadelphia Field Office is investigating this case, which the Justice Department announced on Thursday as part of a broad effort to head off potential Russian influence in the U.S. election in November. An attached five-page memo said that Israel’s deep political polarization, primarily over the right-wing government’s proposed judicial overhaul last year, made the country especially susceptible to Russian influence operations.
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