Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation filed its first charges against Russian government entities, indicting 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for conducting a sophisticated social media disinformation campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The …
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Facebook reveals to Congress that Russian operatives bought $100,000 in political ads reaching millions of Americans, first admission of platform weaponization for foreign election interference, detailed in multiple congressional hearings and investigations throughout late 2017
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The St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency began purchasing Facebook
ads and running coordinated influence operations. Senate Intelligence
Committee reports and platform disclosures document spending (about $100,000
on ~3,000 ads) and reach in the tens of millions between 2015 and 2017.
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