I’m one of those guys that doesn’t have time. I work two jobs and have an eleven year old. Be that as it may, I find myself consumed by this Report and intend to read at least a large part of it.
The Internet Research Agency, IRA, is a group in St Petersburg, Russia whose job was to promote the Trump campaign and defame the Clinton campaign by using social media accounts. From vol 1 page 22:
By the end of the 2016 U.S. election, the IRA had the ability to reach millions of U.S. persons through their social media accounts. Multiple IRA-controlled Facebook groups and Instagram accounts had hundreds of thousands of U.S. participants. IRA-controlled Twitteraccounts separately had tens of thousands of followers, including multiple U.S. political figures who retweeted IRA-created content. In November 2017, a Facebook representative testified that Facebook had identified 470 IRA-controlled Facebook accounts that collectively made 80,000 posts between January 2015 and August 2017. Facebook estimated the IRA reached as many as 126 million persons through its Facebook accounts.6 In January 2018, Twitter announced that it had identified 3,814 IRA-controlled Twitter accounts and notified approximately 1.4 million people Twitter believed may have been in contact with an iRA-controlled account.
