Anyone can use Facebook to boost a message. Even Russian agents.

There's no longer any question at all: Russians meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, and they relied on social media tools we can all use.

Facebook and its photo-sharing site, Instagram, are mentioned dozens of times in the indictment handed down Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller. Twitter, YouTube, and PayPal are also mentioned at various points. 

Mueller, for those catching up, was appointed to investigate alleged foreign meddling in the 2016 U.S. election by the Justice Department in May 2017. The Friday indictment is only the latest development in the lengthy process of disentangling who interfered and how they did it. Read more...