The United States has not monitored any country’s plans to “degrade or disrupt” Washington’s ability to hold the 2024 election, but has noted that Russia has begun its attempts to influence some groups of voters and “denigrate specific politicians,” a US intelligence official said Tuesday.
He also added, in a briefing for journalists on US election security, that China does not plan to influence the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, according to Reuters.
It is noteworthy that last May, US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines announced that US intelligence considers Russia the most dangerous foreign threat to the upcoming presidential elections (November 5), along with China and Iran.
“Russia remains the most active and dangerous foreign threat to our elections,” she said during a Senate hearing.
She also saw that “the influence operations carried out by the Russian leadership in the context of the US elections aim to undermine confidence in American democratic institutions, exacerbate social and political divisions in the United States, and weaken Western support for Ukraine,” according to Russian media.
She also added that “Russia relies on a broad multi-media influence apparatus that includes intelligence services, cyber actors, state media, intermediaries, and social media trolls.”
She concluded by saying that “there is an increasing number of foreign entities, including non-governmental entities, seeking to engage in activities to influence elections.”
Source: Arabic
