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Sen. Murphy: The American people need to know the facts about Russia's interference in US election
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/opinions/russian-interference-election-murphy/index.htmlChris Murphy is a Democratic US senator from Connecticut, and sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinions at CNN.
(CNN)Last month, both Twitter and Facebook announced they were removing a network of accounts that promoted a fake news outlet staffed by computer-generated anchors. The artificial intelligence generated content was mostly directed at left-leaning voters in the United States, with the apparent goal of dissuading them from supporting the Biden-Harris ticket.
Predictably, the accounts were traced back to Internet Research Agency, the most infamous of the Russian government-sponsored troll farms which prominently played in the 2016 election.
As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I have reviewed a lot of both unclassified and classified information detailing Russia's plan to disrupt the 2020 election. This fake news channel is just one of a myriad of examples of how Russia has supersized and improved its ability to disrupt American politics since the 2016 election, when its influence reached an estimated 126 million people on Facebook alone.
These new methods include setting up credible-looking websites like those taken down by Facebook and Twitter, hiring unknowing Americans to provide content for Russia-aligned news sites, and using high-ranking Republican senators and Trump associates like Rudy Giuliani to push Kremlin-created storylines.
While it is still very possible that Russia will attempt to infiltrate and sabotage American voting infrastructure and outcomes, the influence Moscow has already had on the 2020 political debate through its dizzying array of political interference operations is hard to overhype. . .
(CNN)Last month, both Twitter and Facebook announced they were removing a network of accounts that promoted a fake news outlet staffed by computer-generated anchors. The artificial intelligence generated content was mostly directed at left-leaning voters in the United States, with the apparent goal of dissuading them from supporting the Biden-Harris ticket.
Predictably, the accounts were traced back to Internet Research Agency, the most infamous of the Russian government-sponsored troll farms which prominently played in the 2016 election.
As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I have reviewed a lot of both unclassified and classified information detailing Russia's plan to disrupt the 2020 election. This fake news channel is just one of a myriad of examples of how Russia has supersized and improved its ability to disrupt American politics since the 2016 election, when its influence reached an estimated 126 million people on Facebook alone.
These new methods include setting up credible-looking websites like those taken down by Facebook and Twitter, hiring unknowing Americans to provide content for Russia-aligned news sites, and using high-ranking Republican senators and Trump associates like Rudy Giuliani to push Kremlin-created storylines.
While it is still very possible that Russia will attempt to infiltrate and sabotage American voting infrastructure and outcomes, the influence Moscow has already had on the 2020 political debate through its dizzying array of political interference operations is hard to overhype. . .
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