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In reply to the discussion: The visceral hatred for Bernie is starting to remind me of the RW hate for Obama. [View all]emulatorloo
(45,487 posts)accurate. I do get your point about what you believe is happening on the Internet in 2019, but it isnt correct about 2016.
Indictment: Russians also tried to help Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein presidential campaigns
MICHAEL COLLINS | USA TODAY | 1:13 pm EST February 17, 2018
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/348051002
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WASHINGTON It turns out Donald Trump wasnt the only candidate the Russians allegedly tried to help during the 2016 presidential campaign.
A 37-page indictment resulting from special counsel Robert Muellers investigation shows that Russian nationals and businesses also worked to boost the campaigns of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Green party nominee Jill Stein in an effort to damage Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The Russians engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump, according to the indictment, which was issued Friday.
The document, which spells out in detail how the Russians worked to support Trumps campaign, alleges that on or about Feb. 10, 2016, the Russians internally circulated an outline of themes for future content to be posted on social media accounts.
Specialists were instructed to post content that focused on politics in the USA and to use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump we support them), the indictment said.
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Here is a link to the special prosecutors indictment. It goes into a lot of detail about how the trolls operated and includes quotes from their internal documents.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/16/read-robert-muellers-indictment-13-russian-nationals-election-meddling/346688002/