A collection of Instagram posts, which Facebook, the owner of Instagram, yanked off the site in October after concluding that they originated from Russia and had links to the Internet Research Agency, a Russian operation that targeted US audiences in 2016. Social media accounts linked to Russia have begun to disrupt this year’s US presidential race and it’s become harder to detect the posts on platforms like Instagram, according to a new report. — AP
Four years after Russia-linked groups stoked divisions in the US presidential election on social media platforms, a new report shows that Moscow's campaign hasn't let up and has become harder to detect.
The report from University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Young Mie Kim found that Russia-linked social media accounts are posting about the same divisive issues – race relations, gun laws and immigration – as they did in 2016, when the Kremlin polluted American voters’ feeds with messages about the presidential election. Facebook has since removed the accounts.
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