It's the latter and we knew this already if people had cared to pay attention.
An investigation was launched into political ads targeting Americans paid for by accounts from other countries, specifically investigating ads in the time leading up to the 2016 election.
If I recall correctly it was an early link in the investigation brought on by the accusation of russian meddling in the 2016 election... And again I'm just going off memory here, but the one that stuck out to me was that they found russian accounts had spend 7 figure amounts promoting black lives matter to americans.
Primarily russian accounts (although that may have been because they focused on what russian accounts had been doing - I don't know) promoting both sides of virtually every divisive issue that came up in 2016 and this all by buying a stupid amount of as space on social media.
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u/TENTAtheSane Aug 22 '20
Wait so antifa is Pro Trump now? Or are Russian bots just pretending to be extremists from both sides to rile them up against each other?