Russian trolls’ chief target was ‘black US voters’ in 2016

By 2019-10-09Science & Tech
Image copyright Computational Propaganda Research Project
Image caption Black Matters was a Facebook group created by the Internet Research Agency

A Senate inquiry has concluded that a Russian fake-news campaign targeted “no single group… more than African-Americans.”

It says Russian operatives used social media to deter black people from voting and planted subtly racist content to incite conflict between ethnicities.

The report comes two years into the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the 2016 election.

Social media firms say they are trying to prevent it from happening again.

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