The Senate Intelligence Committee released Tuesday the second volume of its report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which focuses on the social media disinformation campaign led by the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency.
Why it matters: The report, which provides further bipartisan evidence of Russia’s election meddling in 2016, finds “the IRA sought to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election by harming Hillary Clinton’s chances of success and supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin.”
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- It also says that the IRA’s activities were “part of a broader, sophisticated, and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in American politics and society” and that IRA activity increased, rather than decreased, after Election Day 2016.
View the complete October 8 article by Zachary Basu on the Axios website here.