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Russian troll’s use Facebook to go after the Biden campaign…

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Joe Biden IS facing a whole LOT of headwind in his campaign for the nomination and to run Donald Trump out of office….

Donald Trump….

Democrats…

Media bias….

And Now?

The Russians….

The accounts Facebook revealed Monday, 50 of which were on Instagram and one of which was on Facebook, were designed to look like they were advocating on a broad range of issues across American life.
Accounts with usernames like @black.queen.chloe and @michigan_black_community_ looked like they were run by black activists. There were also pro and anti-Trump accounts, and accounts posing as feminists, LGBTQ rights advocates, and environmentalists. Other account names included @stop.trump2020, @bernie.2020__, @iowa.patriot, and @feminist_agenda_, according to Graphika.
Facebook said the accounts combined had more than 250,000 followers, more than half of which were based in the U.S. Facebook did not disclose how many of those followers were real and how many might have been fake or bot accounts designed to make the main accounts look more legitimate. Facebook says it has removed the accounts.
“It looked like there was a systematic focus on attacking Biden from both sides,” Graphika director of investigations Ben Nimmo, who analyzed the accounts, told CNN Business….
Note….
There where efforts against other Democrats, but those seem as afterthoughts….
The on-line actions are in line with the Trump effort from Russian sources back in 2016…
Iran? is also doing on-line actions aimed at America…But not on the scale of the Russian efforts…
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