Category: ira

US sanctions two Russians for meddling in 2018 midterm elections

Post author By Randall
Post date September 30, 2019
Categories In 2020 election, disinformation, elections, internet research agency, ira, meddling, Politics, Russia, russian, sanctions, Security, Tech, tomorrow, treasury department, us treasury

[ad_1] Thanks to the Mueller Report, we know that the IRA exposed 126 million Americans on Facebook to Russian-backed propaganda during the 2016 US presidential election. The group attempted to use disinformation to sway the 2018 midterm elections, too. US Cyber Command took the IRA offline on the day of the elections, and the Department […]

Twitter removes nearly 4,800 accounts linked to Iranian government

Post author By Randall
Post date June 13, 2019
Categories In election interference, election meddling, ira, iran, misinformation, Politics, Russia, russian hackers, Security, spain, Tech, tomorrow, Twitter, venezuela

[ad_1] The Iranian accounts were divided into three categories depending on their activities. More than 1,600 accounts were tweeting global news content that supported the Iranian state. A total of 248 accounts were engaged specifically in discussion about Israel. Finally, a total of 2,865 accounts were banned due to taking on a false persona which […]

Russia worked hard to recruit social media users to campaign for Trump

Post author By Randall
Post date April 18, 2019
Categories In bots, Donald Trump, Entertainment, Facebook, gear, Google, Instagram, Internet, internet research agency, ira, mueller report, Politics, president trump, Robots, Russia, Security, social, Social Media, Tech, Trolls, tumblr, Twitter, Youtube

[ad_1] According to the report, the IRA had dozens of employees who were responsible for “operating accounts and personas” on all these social media sites. The IRA referred to these employees as “specialists,” and they were in charge of creating pages that pretended to be personal accounts of people in the US and, later, fake […]