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Where are they now? The Russian bots that disrupted the 2016 election
Russia-linked social media bots played a big role in online conversation about the election. Here’s what they’ve been up to since.
https://thinkprogress.org/russian-bots-w...ow-e2674c19017b
By using Western ideals of free press and expression against themselves, as an example of how democracy is flawed, bots can sow widespread discord.
“That begins to degrade our ability to communicate with each other. It makes our discourse way more toxic, so we’re frequently more angry, more combative. That plays into Russian goals, which is to facilitate division within the United States,” Bergmann said.
“Even if Trump didn’t win…For the Russians, they won either way.”
It’s also a national security risk. Trump’s White House has a track record of elevating fake news as fact, which has serious consequences for foreign relations and public policy-making. Repeating fake news from the highest seat of U.S. government helps create an alliance with Russia’s agenda.
In his March testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, former FBI agent and counter-terrorism expert Clinton Watts said Trump and his campaign aides have repeatedly “parroted” Russian propaganda. In turn, the state-linked accounts tend to post at “high volumes” when they know Trump is online so that their conspiracy theories will gain traction.
“[Trump] denies the intel from the United States about Russia. He claimed that the election could be rigged; that was the number one theme pushed by RT, Sputnik news,” Watts said. “Until we get a firm basis on fact and fiction in our own country, get some agreement about the facts… we’re going to have a big problem.”
And when a rumor broadcast as fact is repeated by the highest elected government officials, it causes division among the population — some of whom want to believe it and others who know it’s false. ...
...Russia’s disinformation campaign even covers U.S. financial markets, using fake stories to cause dips in stocks and make the U.S. economy seem as fragile as Russia’s, Watts said during his testimony.
“Russian propaganda sometime peddles false financial stories, causing rapid shifts in U.S. company stock prices that hurt consumer and investor confidence and open the way for predatory market manipulation and short selling. At times, U.S. business employees unwittingly engage with Russian social-media hecklers and honeypots putting themselves and their companies at risk,” he said.
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