Honking My Own Horn

I had you bird-brained buffoons pegged 35 yrs. ago.

Not that Lederer wasn't on to you even before.

 Cindy Ma / The Computational Propaganda Project:

The IRA and Political Polarization in the United States  —  Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) launched an extended attack on the United States by using computational propaganda to misinform and polarize US voters.  This report provides the first major analysis of this attack based …

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Sara Salinas / CNBC:   Russians got more impact from regular social media posts than ads in election misinformation campaign

Tonya Riley / Mother Jones:   A New Report Shows That Facebook and Instagram Posts From Russian Intelligence Doubled After Trump Won

Emily Stewart / Vox:   Reports to Senate criticize social media giants for providing incomplete data in Russia probe

David A. Graham / The Atlantic:   Russian Trolls and the Trump Campaign Both Tried to Depress Black Turnout

Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:   Trump And Russians Conspired For Years To Steal The Election

Lee Ferran / ABC News:   Russia targeted African-American vote, made Instagram ‘key battleground’ in propaganda war: Researchers

Corinne Weaver / NewsBusters:   ‘Junk News’: Russia Report Done By Anti-Conservative Academics

 Ken Dilanian / NBC News:

Russia favored Trump, targeted African-Americans with election meddling, reports say  —  The Russians set up 30 Facebook pages targeting the black community, the researchers found, and 10 YouTube channels that posted 571 videos related to police violence against African-Americans.

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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:   Russians sought to recruit ‘assets’ through social media, Senate told

BuzzFeed News:   Russia's “Propaganda War” On US Social Media Is Ongoing, New Reports Say

Paul Waldman / Washington Post:   Yes, there was ‘collusion.’ Now what should we do about it?

Bloomberg:   Russia's Bid to Help Trump Revealed as Much Wider Than Once Known

Casey Michel / ThinkProgress:   Social media platforms bungled their response to fake Russian accounts, new reports show

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:   Russians Have Been Supporting Republicans Since 2013

Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Brutal new Senate report on Russian meddling in 2016 election shows just how extensive the attack was on democracy

Daily Kos:   Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: New evidence Trump benefited from misinformation

David McCabe / Axios:
Senate-commissioned reports show scale of Russian misinformation campaign

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Streiff / RedState:   The New Reports On Russian Social Media Use In 2016 Tells Us Nothing We Didn't Know

Cristiano Lima / Politico:   Reports show Russia mounted sweeping effort to sow divisions, support Trump

Bloomberg:
Instagram Was Bigger Russian Election Tool Than Facebook, Senate Report Says

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