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New Justice Department Case Shows Russia Is Now Attacking the Midterm Elections
David Corn
Mother Jones Magazine
October 19, 2018
On Friday, the US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed a criminal complaint accusing a Russian national named Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova of conspiring to interfere in the US political system.
The document maintains that as a financial officer, Khusyaynova was part of the effort mounted by the Internet Research Agency, a troll farm in St Petersburg funded by a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, to use Facebook and Twitter accounts to influence politics in the United States.
The Internet Research Agency's role in Putin's attack on the 2016 election - a scheme that was part of what's known as Project Lakhta" - has already been revealed.
But the complaint highlights a less know-fact: that the Russian attack "continues to this day" and is partially aimed at the 2018 midterm campaign.
That is, the United States, as it heads toward a crucial election, remains under assault by the Kremlin.
President Donald Trump, (whose election, according to a 2017 intelligence community assessment, was one goal of the Russian plot), has refused to seriously address Russia's covert exploitation of US social media to undermine American politics.
For instance, on September 27, 2017, after Facebook revealed that Russian government operatives had secretly placed political ads on the site during the 2016 campaign, Trump dismissed the matter and tweeted that the "hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook."
Yet his own Justice Department now says Russia "to this day" is conducting what Project Lakhta has internally called "information warfare against the United States of America."
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"New Justice Department Case Shows Russia Is Now Attacking the Midterm Elections"
David Corn
Mother Jones Magazine
October 19, 2018
On Friday, the US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed a criminal complaint accusing a Russian national named Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova of conspiring to interfere in the US political system.
The document maintains that as a financial officer, Khusyaynova was part of the effort mounted by the Internet Research Agency, a troll farm in St Petersburg funded by a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, to use Facebook and Twitter accounts to influence politics in the United States.
The Internet Research Agency's role in Putin's attack on the 2016 election - a scheme that was part of what's known as Project Lakhta" - has already been revealed.
But the complaint highlights a less know-fact: that the Russian attack "continues to this day" and is partially aimed at the 2018 midterm campaign.
That is, the United States, as it heads toward a crucial election, remains under assault by the Kremlin.
President Donald Trump, (whose election, according to a 2017 intelligence community assessment, was one goal of the Russian plot), has refused to seriously address Russia's covert exploitation of US social media to undermine American politics.
For instance, on September 27, 2017, after Facebook revealed that Russian government operatives had secretly placed political ads on the site during the 2016 campaign, Trump dismissed the matter and tweeted that the "hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook."
Yet his own Justice Department now says Russia "to this day" is conducting what Project Lakhta has internally called "information warfare against the United States of America."
More + link to criminal complaint,
Google:
"New Justice Department Case Shows Russia Is Now Attacking the Midterm Elections"
