Instagram played a significant role in Russian disinformation campaigns: report

It’s been more than two years since the 2016 presidential election, and researchers are still uncovering the magnitude of Russian disinformation campaign targeted at U.S. voters.

The Senate Intelligence Committee will release two new reports on Monday that detail the extreme lengths the Russian government-associated Internet Research Agency went to in order to effect the last presidential election and beyond.

One report, first published by the Washington Post, was put together by Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and network analysis firm, Graphika. The second report, first obtained by the New York Times, was prepared by cybersecurity company, New Knowledge and researchers at Columbia University and Canfield Research LLC. Read more…

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