Russians on Facebook Organized FL Rallies

News  |  Sep 21, 2017

The Daily Beast reports the Internet Research Agency, a St. Petersburg-based troll farm that pushes pro-Putin narratives online, created the "Being Patriotic" Facebook page and “march_for_trump" Twitter account which it then used to organize and promote campaign-related events in real life. 

The "Being Patriotic" page disappeared at the same time Facebook purged all Internet Research Agency accounts from its network, but the discovery that it created, organized, and promoted pro-Trump/anti-Clinton demonstrations "suggests that the fraudulent activity on Facebook did indeed involve messaging on behalf of Trump, did prompt at least some Americans to rally on Trump’s behalf, and did result in the Trump campaign volunteers subsequently sharing material from those events."

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