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New Senate report says Russia used social media to support Trump at direction of Kremlin
The Senate committee's key finding in its report, published on Tuesday, says that Russia’s Internet Research Agency “sought to influence the 2016 US presidential election by harming Hillary Clinton's chances of success and supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin."
“Masquerading as Americans, these operatives used targeted advertisements, intentionally falsified news articles, self-generated contents, and social media platform tools to interact with and attempt to deceive tens of millions of social media users in the United States,” the report says.
Other articles on the topic mention specifics :
Russian trolls tried to stoke racial divisions with the NFL kneeling debate and Colin Kaepernick well after 2016, Senate report says
Russia's 2016 disinformation campaign sought to leverage the NFL national anthem kneeling controversy as part of a broader effort to divide the US and inflame racial divisions, according to the second volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Russian election interference, which was released on Tuesday.
The report said that the focus on the NFL kneeling controversy went well beyond 2016 and continued as late as March 2018.
Interesting how prevalent those topics were here at the time, and how quickly they've seemed to disappear. Wonder if looking at the dates of the various threads started about them would show any correlation to the Republican Senators' reports about Russian propaganda about those same topics?
New Senate report says Russia used social media to support Trump at direction of Kremlin
The Senate committee's key finding in its report, published on Tuesday, says that Russia’s Internet Research Agency “sought to influence the 2016 US presidential election by harming Hillary Clinton's chances of success and supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin."
“Masquerading as Americans, these operatives used targeted advertisements, intentionally falsified news articles, self-generated contents, and social media platform tools to interact with and attempt to deceive tens of millions of social media users in the United States,” the report says.
Russian trolls tried to stoke racial divisions with the NFL kneeling debate and Colin Kaepernick well after 2016, Senate report says
Russia's 2016 disinformation campaign sought to leverage the NFL national anthem kneeling controversy as part of a broader effort to divide the US and inflame racial divisions, according to the second volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Russian election interference, which was released on Tuesday.
The report said that the focus on the NFL kneeling controversy went well beyond 2016 and continued as late as March 2018.
Interesting how prevalent those topics were here at the time, and how quickly they've seemed to disappear. Wonder if looking at the dates of the various threads started about them would show any correlation to the Republican Senators' reports about Russian propaganda about those same topics?
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