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READ: Senate Intel Concludes Russia Intervened In 2016 To Boost Trump (talkingpointsmemo.com)
submitted by lyndonb 3 years ago

If you feel so inclined, the link also includes the entire report.

From the article:

The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that the Russian government used social media in the 2016 election to help President Trump secure victory and hurt the Hillary Clinton campaign, the panel said in an 85-page report released on Tuesday.

The report examined the efforts of the Saint Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, which has also been the target of charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.

“The Committee found, that the IRA sought to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential
election by harming Hillary Clinton’s chances of success and supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin,” the document reads.

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OP lyndonb 3 years ago

Here's a Business Insider article that goes into a lot more detail about what Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) was most interested in to cause maximum discord in the U.S. population, and of course it was race relations.

From the article:

The Internet Research Agency, the notorious Russian troll farm at the center of these efforts, "heavily focused on hotbutton issues with racial undertones, such as the NFL kneeling protests."