US intelligence has concluded that Russian president Vladimir Putin authorised “influence operations” aimed at supporting Donald Trump’s bid for re-election in the 2020 presidential campaign.
The assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees 18 US intelligence agencies, found that the Kremlin stopped short of backing the kinds of hacking missions carried out in 2016, which included attempts to break into “election infrastructure”.
Instead, Putin focused on disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining rival Joe Biden’s candidacy and American confidence in the election process.
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