ADADThe smear campaign against the American diplomat lies at the heart of the impeachment proceedings against President Trump. The “known Russian operation," as Graphika called it, involved doctored visuals and sought to cover its tracks using single-use accounts on discussion forums and other crowdsourced websites, as well as on the news aggregation site Reddit. ADA post on Medium, by the user @tosealy, produced an image of the fictitious list of untouchables on March 25. And it involved accounts that Reddit attributed to the known operation emanating from Russia, again buttressing Graphika’s conclusions about the origins of the disinformation campaign. As building blocks of a broader campaign to deflect attention from Russian meddling, they have served their purpose, experts said.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2019 15:00 UTC