Report: FBI Tracked ‘Fake News’ Campaign On Election Day

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly monitored social media on Election Day last year in an attempt to track a suspected Russian disinformation campaign using "fake news," according to a CNN report. The report goes on to say that dozens of agents and analysts were looking for security threats on monitoring screens in their headquarters as people went to the polls. Additionally, counterintelligence analysts were keeping an eye on social media at the same time and suspected that some social media accounts behind fake news stories were part of a broader Russian disinformation campaign.