US military blocked Russian troll farm’s efforts to interfere in 2018 midterms

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US military blocked Russian troll farm’s efforts to interfere in 2018 midterms

By Mark Moore

February 26, 2019 | 1:00pm | Updated
 

The US military blocked an infamous Russian troll farm from accessing the internet and thwarted its effort to create discord by interfering in the 2018 midterm elections, according to a report on Tuesday.

Cyber Command, working with intelligence from the National Security Agency, struck the Internet Research Agency, a company in St. Petersburg backed by a Kremlin-linked oligarch.

“They basically took the IRA offline,” an individual with knowledge of the matter told the Washington Post. “They shut ‘em down.”

https://nypost.com/2019/02/26/us-military-blocked-russian-troll-farms-efforts-to-interfere-in-2018-midterms/