Russian Propaganda Exploits American Racism

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“By far, race and related issues were the preferred target of the information warfare campaign designed to divide the country in 2016,” the panel concluded.

According to a spate of recent reports, accounts tied to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency—a Russian “troll factory”— used social media and Google during the 2016 electoral campaign to deepen political and racial tensions in the United States.