Clinton Watts: "What they (Russia) want to do is use information as a weapon of warfare to undermine U.S. democracy, such that we crumble from the inside out... the way they do that is by using what’s called a state-to-people and a people-to-people strategy... The new social media that’s out there, Twitter, Facebook, and the way advertisements are done, the way you can demographically target people."

He explained that Russia uses automated technology (bots) to create what look like armies of Americans. They program those using online biography data of real Americans (even pictures) to look like a supporter of one candidate or another, and then they’ll push a series of manipulated truths or fake stories through those accounts. This makes it more believable, and others are more amenable to the propaganda. The bot army is still active and hard at work.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/04/03/the-big-russia-questions-loom-even-larger