According to a spate of recent reports, accounts tied to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency — a Russian “troll factory” — used social media and Google during the 2016 electoral campaign to deepen political and racial tensions in the United States. The trolls, according to an interview with the Russian TV network TV Rain, were directed to focus their tweets and comments on socially divisive issues, like guns.
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Protesters from Students For a Democratic Society and Black Lives Matter demonstrate on the University of Utah campus against an event where right wing writer and commentator Ben Shapiro is speaking on Sept. 27, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
