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11-08-2017, 12:31 PM
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"Today, Newsweek revealed that Russian bot accounts were responsible for pushing stories related to the non-scandal Uranium One deal in the run-up to Robert Mueller releasing his first indictments this week. Hamilton 68, a non-partisan organization tracking Russian bot activity, confirmed as such: "
Russia is Helping Fox News Push the Hillary Clinton/Uranium One Distraction - The Daily Banter
"Russian bots spread stories relating to a controversial uranium deal linked to Hillary Clinton in the days before special counsel Robert Mueller disclosed charges against three former Trump campaign members in his probe of Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election.
Hamilton 68, a nonpartisan security research project tracing Russia-tied information warfare on Twitter, examined 58 unique URLs promoted by accounts linked to the Kremlin between October 14 and 20. The project found that the most prominent theme—making up 24 percent of the links shared—was a deal that Clinton and the Obama administration approved giving Moscow control of U.S. uranium while the FBI had proof of Russian bribery.
The original story, which ran in The Hill, was a top story for a number of days, and “all other URLs shared promoted some variation on a theme of corruption, collusion, cover-up by the Clinton-led State Department and/or the Mueller-led FBI (#ClintonRussianCollusion was also a top hashtag last week),” according to Hamilton 68."
Russian Bots Targeted Clinton And Mueller Leading Up To Collusion Indictments
"A U.S. intelligence assessment earlier this year reported that Russian Twitter accounts began backing Donald Trump as early as six months into his bid for the presidency, but new data shows pro-Trump and anti-Hillary Clinton activity started within weeks of him entering the race.
In the three-month period after Trump announced his candidacy on June 16, 2015, tweets from Russian accounts pushed praise for him over criticism by close to a 10-to-1 margin, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of 159,000 deleted tweets from 2,752 accounts named during congressional hearings last Wednesday on Russian interference in the election.
The accounts, which Twitter identified as run by the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency, by equal or greater margins criticized Clinton and early Republican frontrunner Jeb Bush."
Russia Was Helping Trump Just Days After He Entered the 2016 Primary
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