The new report offers the latest evidence that Russian agents sought to help Trump win the White House. The authors, while reliant on data provided by technology companies, also highlighted the companies' “belated and uncoordinated response” to the disinformation campaign and, once it was discovered, for not sharing more with investigators. The Russians started with accounts on Twitter, then added YouTube and Instagram before bringing Facebook into the mix, the report said. Across all three years covered by the report, Russian Instagram posts generated 185 million likes and 4 million user comments. “Black Matters US” had accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google+, Tumblr and PayPal, according to the researchers.

Source: Washington Post December 16, 2018 21:31 UTC