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U.S. Posts $10 Million Reward Citing Russian Election Interference









											By AFP 

												Oct. 19, 2024											
























								Zakariya Yahya/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Press Wire							





The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to any foreign person or entity engaging in election interference, it said just weeks before Americans select their next president.
An announcement from the department's Rewards for Justice program specifically singled out Russian media organization Rybar LLC, which it said used social media to "sow discord, promote social division, stoke partisan and racial discord, and encourage hate and violence in the United States."
There was no immediate reaction from Rybar or Russian authorities.
The State Department said Rybar had established a channel on the X platform called "TexasvsUSA," and used it ahead of the U.S. election to exploit the issue of undocumented immigrants crossing the Texas border.



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It said Rybar also used social media channels #HOLDTHELINE and #STANDWTHTEXAS to spread pro-Russian propaganda.
Rybar, it asserted, receives funding from Russian defense industrial organization Rostec, which the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions against in 2022.
"Rybar relies on the connections and funding from Rostec to bolster Russia’s military capabilities and advance pro-Russian and anti-Western narratives," the announcement said.
It encouraged anyone with relevant knowledge — particularly regarding nine named individuals it said helped carry out Rybar's "malign influence operations" over the U.S. election — to contact the Rewards for Justice tipline.
Rybar operates a channel on the Telegram platform that is popular among the pro-Ukraine-war hardliners of Russia's "Z community" — with 1.3 million followers.
It was co-founded by Mikhail Zvinchuk, a one-time member of Russia's Spetsnaz special forces and former Defense Ministry employee, who has been under European Union sanctions since June 2023.
Offering daily reports on battlefield developments in Ukraine, he has become one of the most famous and influential Russian military bloggers.



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In April 2024, Zvinchuk announced the opening of a "Rybar Media School" in Serbia, saying on Telegram: "We have long studied the West's approaches to waging information warfare against us.
"Now is the moment to apply our knowledge and teach our associates the right approaches," he said, adding that this was "just the beginning" of this propaganda strategy in Western countries.





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This is a box and stick trap for Trump, isn't it? And he's going to unintentionally admit to being involved because he *assumes* this, like everything else, is about him? 

"Kalama, who by the way is a radical communist leftist Marxist a lot of people don't know that, and *Biden...*who we haven't seen in days*...*they're bad people okay, and they're paying for fake news about me, it's criminal really they should be...they're paying for this and they'll say 'Trump called Putin on Jan 6th' which was a perfect day by the way and I didn't call by way he called..listen they're just evil people and they're trying...no violence on Jan 6th no violence just love and Trump and it was just a perfect call."