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The complaint says that Russian conspirators have directed their army of trolls towards "[s]say that in the last election, namely the mainstream media, which supported the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, had disseminated false information, "with a quote from one of these articles in CNN. (One of Trump's favorite refrains, chanted by his supporters at rallies, is that "CNN is a false information.") Another troll would have been instructed: "The Paul Ryan brand is a complete and absolute person incapable of making a decision" in because of his opposition to Trump's position. immigration cuts. (Trump called Ryan "a weak and inefficient leader" in 2016.) Yet another Russian troll would have been asked to publish an article on voter registration numbers in California, which should refer to "falsifications" on a large scale "threatening to transform the Constitution". in a parody and a celebration of anarchy … it is urgent to introduce voter IDs for all states. "(Trump asserted, without evidence, that between 3 and 5 million ballots had been illegally cast during the 2016 election.) The Russians went after the complaint, Mueller would also have urged Troll factory employees introduced the man who investigated Trump as "a politician with proven connections to the Democratic Party" and unable to produce "honest and transparent results" (Trump attacked Mueller " And his whole group of angry Democratic thugs, "calling his investigation a" witch hunt ".
The chamber of resonance between Trump's electoral rhetoric and that of the Russian trolls was striking.
The use by Russia of fake social media accounts to spread misinformation and propaganda in the run-up to the 2016 elections has been scrutinized following Facebook's disclosure last September of the 470 shutdown. Internet Research Agency related pages that shared controversial content then promoted using targeted political ads. Facebook estimated that about 10 million people saw the ads, which targeted users in Michigan and Wisconsin – two states that Trump won respectively about 10,000 votes and 22,000 votes. In November, Twitter told Congress that accounts linked to Russia "had generated about 1.4 million election-related automated tweets, which collectively had generated about 288 million impressions" last year, from September 1st to November 15th.
The campaign of disinformation – reinforced by the hacking of Russians against the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman in the 2016 election – was described in detail by he indicted 13 Russian nationals, including the alleged employer of Khusyaynova, Putin. the confidant Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The Russians used PayPal accounts and a complex network of front companies to fund the operation, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said earlier this year, following Mueller's indictment. The budget allocated to the project by the lagging factory, which Khusyaynova would have controlled, exceeded 73 million Russian rubles – about $ 1.2 million – a month. Anyone who could have expected the Lakhta project to be closed after the 2016 elections would have been wrong: the troll factory's budget increased almost every month between January and June 2018, the Russian trolls 'being attacked mid-way, according to the complaint. In July, the proposed operating budget totaled more than $ 10 million.
