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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is pushing web domain companies to address Russian influence operations during the 2024 election cycle.
The Democratic lawmaker sent letters to NameCheap, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, NewFold Digital, NameSilo and Verisign Thursday after the online companies were listed in an affidavit from the Department of Justice last month.
The affidavit said federal prosecutors were seizing 32 internet domains that “had been used by the Russian government and Russian government-sponsored actors to engage in foreign malign influence campaigns colloquially referred to as ‘Doppelgänger.’”
Addressing the web domains Thursday, Warner said information included in the DOJ affidavit supporting the seizure provided “further indication of your industry’s apparent inattention to abuses by foreign actors engaged in covert influence.”
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Warner said the web domains should have been more alert to “abuse of its services.” He noted that …
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