New York – A new report suggests a “sophisticated” Russian propaganda campaign helped flood social media with fake news stories leading up to the presidential election.
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The Washington Post, citing a yet-to-be published report from independent researchers, says the goal was to punish Hillary Clinton, help Donald Trump, and undermine faith in American democracy.
The report comes from a nonpartisan group of researchers called PropOrNot. The group describes itself as “concerned American citizens” with expertise in computer science, national security and public policy. The researchers say they traced the origins of posts and mapped the connections among accounts that delivered similar messages.
The group says its findings show just how effective the bogus reports were. On Facebook, PropOrNot estimates that stories planted or promoted by the disinformation campaign were viewed 213 million times.
How do we know that’s not a fake story in itself?
Russia has been spreading fake news for avery long time.
In fact ever since the communists took over they have been feeding their people fake news and via shortwave radio they used to broadcast fake news to the rest of the world before most of the readers of this site were born.
I could just as easily found my own organization and release a report to the Washington Post describing an unpublished report the determined exactly the opposite.