Three Russian companies with links to the government were allegedly using the domains as part of a coordinated effort to influence the upcoming election.

A pretty good summary of the DOJ documents in the Russian propaganda campaign.

  • Darkard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    2 months ago

    I wonder if they will replace the pages with anything that explains that the site was seized and taken down for being part of election interference and misinformation.

    Would be cool to see all the old links and copy/pasted fascist text walls get updated.

    • Null User Object@programming.dev
      11·
      2 months ago

      This was my initial thought as well. It would be relatively easy to put up some text explaining what happened to try and undo some of the damage.

      • evatronic@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        There’s a problem there, though. The propaganda was basically various versions of “The government (when run by Democrats) is bad, don’t trust the government.”

        If they put up a notice saying, “This domain was seized, here’s the real facts!” the target of the propaganda isn’t going to buy it for a hot minute.

        If they put up replacement content that doesn’t mention the government seizure, tha target of the propaganda is already primed to shout, “Fake news!” at anything that disputes their existing worldview.

        It’s best to just let those domains return like a 504 Internal Server Error and die a quiet death.