FAKE RACIST GRANDMAS
The Daily Beast was one of the first to cover the weirdness of hostile foreign entities posing as human actors on social media. It’s a beat that’s not going away anytime soon.
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R/NoComment
Reddit’s CEO said the ‘front page of the Internet’ is working with Congress to uncover Russian propaganda. But it’s turned over no material to investigators.
‘Kidnapped for Their Melanin’
None of the troll-farm posts earned as much mockery across the web as Hustle in a Trap’s conspiracy theory about black people being kidnapped and ‘consumed’ for nearly $30 million.
‘Own Dysfunction’
He ‘fessed up days after The Daily Beast confirmed a Russian troll farm had used his platform, and on the same day that Senate investigators asked for new information from the site
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The internet giants are staying mum after a leak from the Kremlin-backed troll farm confirmed that they were key nodes in the Russian disinformation campaign.
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RED SPILL
An online auction gone awry reveals substantial new details on Kremlin-backed troll farm efforts to stir up real protests and target specific Americans to push their propaganda.
ICK
Getting unsolicited packages from unknown strangers is creepy. Being unable to stop it only makes them creepier.
‘QUESTIONABLE’
A week after the WikiLeaks founder tried to DM Sean Hannity with ‘news about Warner,’ another Fox star tried to gin up scandal about the Senate intel committee vice chairman.
‘Aggressive Enforcement’
Far from the border, passengers aboard Amtrak trains are now being asked for their status—and Amtrak is not saying whether a rider can be ejected for failure to produce papers.
HOW IS THIS STILL HAPPENING?
Facebook once again surfaced wild conspiracy theories about ‘commie-lib resisters’ and Hillary Clinton staging terror attacks on Amtrak in a part of its Trending News section.