Russian internet trolls focused on black Americans, Senate confirms

Welp, add this to the ever-growing list of reasons to despise the Internet Research Agency. 

The Russian internet troll farm focused its efforts on black Americans leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. So explains a bipartisan Senate intelligence report released today, which details the degree to which the government-backed group used race as a weapon in its campaign of information warfare. 

"No single group of Americans was targeted by IRA information operatives more than African-Americans," notes the report.

That the IRA went after black Americans is not a new revelation. We've known this since 2017, with earlier reports indicating the troll farm attempted to co-opt the Black Lives Matter movement and incite race-based violence via social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.  Read more...