Too little, too late.

The sanctions target the Cognitive Design Production Center, a division of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the Center for Geopolitical Expertise and its director Valery Mikhailovich Korovin, both affiliates of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate, also known as the GRU.

The Justice Department ahead of the election seized 32 different web domains, many of them appearing to be legitimate news sites such as The Washington Post, but promoting content in line with Russian narratives.

And in a separate indictment, the Justice Department charged two employees associated with RT, previously known as Russia Today, for contracting with an American-based media company to covertly pay well-known conservative commentators such as Tim Pool and Benny Johnson to promote Russian narratives.