Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans

Posted on AllSides December 17th, 2018
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Russia meddling, Social Media

The Russian influence campaign on social media in the 2016 election made an extraordinary effort to target African-Americans, used an array of tactics to try to suppress turnout among Democratic voters and unleashed a blizzard of posts on Instagram that rivaled or exceeded its Facebook operations, according to a report produced for the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/russia-2016-influence-campaign.html

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