New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation’s scale and sweep | Washington Post

Also see Russia is winning its war of disinformation | Axios; on a related note, see The Steele Dossier: A Retrospective | Lawfare

"The Russians aimed particular energy at activating conservatives on issues such as gun rights and immigration, while sapping the political clout of left-leaning African American voters by undermining their faith in elections and spreading misleading information about how to vote. Many other groups — Latinos, Muslims, Christians, gay men and women, liberals, Southerners, veterans — got at least some attention from Russians operating thousands of social media accounts.

The report also offered some of the first detailed analyses of the role played by YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, and Instagram, owned by Facebook, in the Russian campaign, as well as anecdotes about how Russians used other social media platforms — Google+, Tumblr and Pinterest — that have received relatively little scrutiny. The Russian effort also used email accounts from Yahoo, Microsoft’s Hotmail service and Google’s Gmail."

New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation’s scale and sweep | Washington Post