To implement this scheme. The defendant directed the company to contract with us based social media influencers to share this content on their platforms. The subject matter and content of many of the videos published by the company were often consistent with Russia's interest in amplifying us domestic divisions in order to weaken us opposition to core Russian interests, particularly its ongoing war in Ukraine. The company never disclosed to the influencers or to their millions of followers, its ties to RT and the Russian government instead, the defendants and the company claimed that the company was sponsored by *** private investor, but that private investor was *** fictitious persona. The charges en sealed this morning do not represent the end of the investigation. It remains active and ongoing in *** separate enforcement action. The justice department is seizing 32 internet domains that the Russian government and the Russian sponsored actors have used to engage in *** covert campaign to interfere and influence the outcome of our country's elections. As alleged in our court filings, President Vladimir Putin's inner circle including including Sergei, you rent the car, directed Russian public relations companies to promote disinformation and state sponsored narratives as part of *** program to influence the 2024 US presidential election. An internal planning document created by the Kremlin States that is the goal of the of the campaign is securing Russia's preferred outcome in the election. The online infrastructure used by the Russian public relations company known as the social design agency or SD *** and related actors included. What are sometimes referred to as cyber squatted domains. These websites were designed to appear to American readers as if they were major us news sites like the Russian Post or Fox News. But in fact, they were fake sites. They were filled with Russian government propaganda that had been created by the Kremlin to reduce international support for Ukraine bolster pro Russian policies and interests and influence voters in the United States and in other countries.