foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/30/russia-engaged-in-information-warfare-in-us-senator-says.html
- Kremlin sees US as weak.
- Russia hacked thousands of U.S. officials, both Democrat and Republican.
- Russia has activated thousands of bots and paid trolls to spread fake news on social media, supported by profiteers.
- Russia has activated thousands of bots and paid trolls to spread fake support for Trump on social media, supported by profiteers
- Russia has activated thousands of bots and paid trolls to divide the Democratic caucus, supported by profiteers.
- RT and Sputnik News push state-sponsored propaganda through bots and social media to get it trending on Twitter, so it will go viral.
- Voter rolls were hacked to identify voters to target with disinformation.
- Trump was working with Russian disinformation outlets to validate news stories known to be fake.
- Russians were able to successfully flood social media and specifically target key demographics such as Christians or outspoken patriots with disinformation, then duplicate counterfeit versions of the same accounts they targeted in order to amplify the spread of disinformation. Like attracts Like.
- Russian disinformation and the Trump campaign effectively pushed the "election rigging" meme, while simultaneously engaging in the act of trying to influence the election by illegal means.
- Senator Wyden is seeking Trump's tax returns, and has the legal authority to subpoena them, if necessary.
- Russia uses business networks to influence political actors.
- Private American businesses that oppose the Russian agenda are being attacked using tactics designed to negatively impact their stock prices.
- Bots and trolls engage in "click fraud" (i.e. computer-automated visits to their own disinformation pages) to push them to page one in search engine results.
- Mainstream media sometimes unwittingly published Russian propaganda because it was "trending."