The U.S. Justice Department announced today a successful operation to dismantle a covert social media bot farm operated by the Russian government. The bot farm, which utilized AI-enhanced technology, was designed to spread disinformation across social media platforms in the United States and abroad. “With these actions, the Justice Department has disrupted a Russian-government backed, AI-enabled propaganda campaign to use a bot farm to spread disinformation in the United States and abroad,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “As the Russian government continues to wage its brutal war in…