It was like Russia was running a super PAC for Trumps campaign
‘It was like Russia was running a super PAC for Trump’s campaign’
By Steve Benen at MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/it-was-russia-was-running-super-pac-trumps-campaign
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And while the fictional reports had many authors, the Washington Post reported over the holiday weekend that Russia’s government played an important role.
The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation.
Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery – including thousands of botnets, teams of paid human “trolls,” and networks of websites and social-media accounts – echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal hiding potentially fatal health problems and preparing to hand control of the nation to a shadowy cabal of global financiers.
The Post’s report was based on the findings of “two teams of independent researchers found that the Russians exploited American-made technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment.”
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