A new report that was put together by the Oxford University Computational Propaganda Project and a network analysis firm for the Senate Intelligence Committee reveals the scope of the Russia disinformation campaign was larger than previously known and sought to directly benefit Republicans and President Trump, The Washington Post reported.
“What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party — and specifically Donald Trump,” the report says, according to a draft copy obtained by the Washington Post. “Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting.”
The Oxford group and Graphika reached their conclusions by studying the millions of posts shared by the Russian Internet Research Agency, which the U.S. has already criminally charged for interference. The data was shared with the Senate Intelligence Committee by Facebook, Twitter and Google. The committee plans to release the report later this week, but hasn’t yet said whether it backs the researchers conclusions.
Read the full Washington Post story here.
This is North Carolina’s 9th writ large. We need a do-over of the 2016 election!
It’s comforting to be reminded that 30% or so of the American public is so closely aligned with or so easily duped by the despotic, murderous, anti-U.S., authoritarian, former KGB agent led Russian government.
If it doesn’t, that would be one more layer of disinformation.
Most people commonly referred to as being “minorities” are fully cognizant of this. Trump voters are a minority, but do not think that is true.
Maybe it has to do with the undue attention placed on them by society in general and by the representative distortion of the United States Senate, which is involved with this report. If there actually was proportionate Senate representation of the population, this report would have been issued in half the time and with many times more useful information.
Until Senate crooks are brought to justice, the Senate IS TRump.