Here’s How Russian Trolls Turned Social Media Into a Weapon While Tech Giants Played Dumb
On Monday , two new independent studies commission by the Senate Intelligence Committee were made public , supply the most in - depth look at online Russian hitch in the 2016 election to engagement . The studies get that societal medium connection have n’t been totally forthcoming with lawmakers , and the propaganda efforts were decidedly contrive to elect Donald Trump as president of the United States . The two report — oneby Oxford University ’s Computational Propaganda Project and Graphika , andoneby cybersecurity company New Knowledge — confirm much ofwhat we ’ve been toldabout the selective information war perpetrated by Russia ’s Internet Research Agency ( IRA ) ....