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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: TomSea on October 20, 2018, 02:10:31 am
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'Information warfare:' Feds charge Russian woman with interference in US political system, midterm elections
A Russian woman has been charged with trying to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections, authorities said.
Elena Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg, Russia, is accused of using using social media platforms to create thousands of social media and e-mail accounts that purported to be from Americans, to "amplify divisive social media and political content."
Prosecutors claim Khusyaynova is the chief accountant for a Russian entity dubbed Project Lakhta.
Dan Mangan | @_DanMangan
A Russian woman has been charged with trying to interfere and "sow discord" in the American political system, including in the 2018 midterm elections as part of a conspiracy that exploited thousands of social media accounts and emails that claimed to be owned by U.S. residents, authorities said.
Elena Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg, Russia, is accused of participating in a conspiracy engaged in "information warfare against the United States" that aimed "create and amplify divisive social media and political content."
Read more at: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/woman-linked-to-russian-troll-farm-charged-with-interference-in-2018-midterms.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/woman-linked-to-russian-troll-farm-charged-with-interference-in-2018-midterms.html)
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To me, doing this stuff on facebook, it just seems lame. The link above from CNBC actually has some examples of the kind of stuff they posted:
FAKES (I guess)
(https://sc.cnbcfm.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/files/2018/10/19/Screen-Shot-2018-10-19-at-3.25.37-PM.jpg)
(https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/woman-linked-to-russian-troll-farm-charged-with-interference-in-2018-midterms.html#)
This doesn't belong in world news as much as maybe scandal... so it will get seen.