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A Russian Internet agency and more than a dozen Russians interfered in the 2016 US election campaign in a multi-pronged effort to support Donald Trump and disparage rival Hillary Clinton, the US Special Counsel said in an indictment on Friday. The charges byRussians charged with 2016 US election tampering to boost Trump
A Russian Internet agency and more than a dozen Russians interfered in the 2016 US election campaign in a multi-pronged effort to support Donald Trump and disparage rival Hillary Clinton, the US Special Counsel said in an indictment on Friday. The charges by the office of Robert Mueller described a conspiracy that started in 2014 to disrupt the US election by people who adopted false online personas to push divisive messages; traveled to the United States to collect intelligence; and staged political rallies while posing as Americans. Russia's Internet Research Agency «had a strategic goal to sow discord in the US political system, including the 2016 US presidential election,» the indictment states. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told reporters in announcing the charges that the investigation was not finished. «Defendants posted derogatory information about a number of candidates, and by early to mid-2016, Defendants' operations included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump ... and disparaging Hillary Clinton,» the court document said. The indictment broadly echoes the conclusions of a January 2017 US intelligence assessment, which... Read more