 covertly spread pro-Kremlin messages in the United States and abroad. Officials from the DOJ secured court approval to seize two domain names and search 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.