11-01-2017, 06:03 PM
Quote:Between the staggering new numbers on total social media impact and revelations on the ever-larger reach of on-the-ground protests, it’s become apparent that the more we learn about the fake social media accounts run out of Russia, the greater their impact appears. As such, it’s become increasingly clear that these fake accounts didn’t remain relegated solely to the social media sphere — and that they managed to spread due not only to unwitting activists, but also due to outlets and journalists, as ThinkProgress has detailed, who managed to include these accounts in stories without realizing they were created by trolls in St. Petersburg.A closer look at how fake Russian accounts reached into US media – ThinkProgress