Major news outlets shared Russian propaganda from Twitter

The study, which covers tweets from January 1st, 2016 through September 30th, 2017, noted that many of the accounts posed as activists on both major sides of contentious issues. As on Facebook, Russia’s “troll team” (the IRA) was trying to exploit social divisions. It’s not known how many of the accounts were created explicitly for …

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