African Americans were the group targeted the most by Russian social media trolls, the Senate Intelligence Committee's report said.
to try to persuade African American citizens not to vote in the 2016 presidential election, according to a bipartisan report released by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.
"o single group of Americans was targeted by IRA information operatives more than African Americans," the report stated. "By far, race and related issues were the preferred target of the information warfare campaign designed to divide the country in 2016." Russian Facebook pages and Instagram accounts looked to stoke racial tensions, it found, confirming the findings of private researchers.have looked to clean up their platforms in the wake of claims of foreign interference in the 2016 election, clamping down on influence campaigns attempting to sway public opinion in various countries.linked to a Chinese disinformation campaign against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
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