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Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...713_story.html

Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III, says report prepared for Senate

By Craig Timberg ,
Tony Romm and
Elizabeth Dwoskin December 17 at 7:41 PM
Months after President Trump took office, Russia’s disinformation teams trained their sites on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Having worked to help get Trump into the White House, they now worked to neutralize the biggest threat to his staying there.

The Russian operatives unloaded on Mueller through fake accounts on Facebook, Twitter and beyond, falsely claiming that the former FBI director was corrupt and that the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election were crackpot conspiracies. One post on Instagram — which emerged as an especially potent weapon in the Russian social media arsenal — claimed that Mueller had worked in the past with “radical Islamic groups.”