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Sat Mar 9, 2019, 06:28 PM Mar 2019

Russian Trolls Shift Strategy to Disrupt 2020 Election

Russian Trolls Shift Strategy to Disrupt 2020 Election

March 9, 2019 at 7:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard 123 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/03/09/russian-trolls-shift-strategy-to-disrupt-2020-election/

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“Russian internet trolls appear to be shifting strategy in their efforts to disrupt the 2020 U.S. elections, promoting politically divisive messages through phony social media accounts instead of creating propaganda themselves,” Bloombergreports.

“The Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency may be among those trying to circumvent protections put in place by companies including Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. to find and remove fake content that hackers created to sow division among the American electorate in the 2016 presidential campaign.”

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