In this article, the website Tumblr comes out, unmasking “84 accounts that it says were used by a shadowy Russian internet group to spread disinformation during the 2016 US election campaign”. According to Tumblr, the accounts were “being used as part of a disinformation campaign leading up to the 2016 US election”. This is interesting as it shows that there certainly are groups out there dedicated to changing the flow of politics, going so far as to create “troll farms” to do so. Tumblr says it’s now only allowed to disclose to the general public what happened after working with the US Justice Department which leads one to wonder what else there is on other sites and how deep the rabbit hole really goes.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/24/tumblr-says-russia-used-it-for-fake-news-during-2016-election
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