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February 16, 2018 08:30 pm GMT

Look at these dumb email accounts Russian trolls made to influence the 2016 election

We can't say they didn't have a sense of humor. 

Today, the U.S. Justice Department brought detailed charges against the Russian Internet Research Agency for its attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. With those charges,  we were gifted with a detailed look at the inner-workings of the Russian "troll farm" that has shaped our national discourse over the past year and a half — and it's surprisingly funny.

SEE ALSO: Team Trump tried to diss Obama in its website code, but couldn't even get that right

The Russian group has been accused of creating social media accounts tied to fake persons and paying to promote their various pro-Trump shenanigans. To accomplish this, IRA employees obtained "fraudulent bank account numbers for the purpose of evading PayPal's security measures." Read more...

More about Russia, Email, Election 2016, Donald Trump, and Trolls

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