 and searched nearly 1,000 media accounts, according to those associated with the effort. Attorney General Merrick Garland said, with these actions, the Justice Department has disrupted a Russian government-backed AI-enabled propaganda campaign using a bot farm to spread disinformation. A bot farm is a group of servers generally used to engage in cyber attacks. The DOJ's action marks the first time that the U.S. has publicly accused a foreign government of using generative AI in a foreign influence operation.