Mueller indicts 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for interfering in 2016 election
By Mark Sumner Friday Feb 16, 2018 · 12:10 PM CST
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein held a press conference on Friday afternoon to announce special counsel indictments of Russian firms and individuals who interfered in the 2016 election. [ https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download ] Included in the indictment were the Internet Research Agency, also known as Glavset, an organization based in St. Petersburg that specializes in creating fake accounts on social media and generating false news stories supported by pop-up fake news sites.
According to the charges the defendants not only posed as U.S. citizens while operating social media pages and groups designed to impact the election, but some of them traveled to the United States in the process to collect information and ...
The indictments include a charge of “conducting information warfare against the United States” along with charges connected to a conspiracy.
More as there’s time to read through the complete indictment.
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