The Russian state has constructed a “full spectrum” propaganda machine, and its attempt to influence the 2016 U.S. election through social media is just one example of the new type of espionage that the world faces, according to a team of analysts who have forensically examined the hundreds of thousands of bogus tweets and Facebook posts allegedly coordinated by Moscow.
The work of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab follows the indictments filed last week by the U.S. Department of Justice and Special Counsel Robert Mueller against 13 Russian nationals and three entities, accused of trying to interfere in U.S. politics.
