From Axios:
A newly-uncovered batch of 600 Twitter accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency — the Russian troll farm indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for interfering in the 2016 election — tweeted nearly 10,000 times about the Affordable Care Act and health policy between 2014 and May 2018, reports the WSJ.
Why it matters: The majority of the tweets were aimed at pitting partisan sides against each other, peaking during the GOP effort to repeal the ACA last summer. It’s more evidence that Russian trolls are more interested in encouraging fights between Americans than taking sides.
The original Wall Street Journal article that appeared early this morning is hidden behind a paywall, but it opens with this:
On the March 23 anniversary of the Affordable Care Act becoming law, Democrats attacked Republicans for trying to sabotage the health law and praised the embattled legislation.
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Ugh. So the Russians have been attacking us for far longer than just the 2016 Presidential election. They have been meddling, disrupting, interfering for years. They have already seriously wounded the United States, and they are far from finished. The sooner we come to terms with the fact that Russia is engaged in acts of asymmetrical cyber war against us, the better chance we have of surviving.
Wake up, and fight back!