according to page 34 of the mueller report, the posts by russian hackers reached 129 million americans! the entire population that voted, in other words!
And?
The Weissman claim is of course absurd and falls into the same level as "bigfoot may have pissed on 2 trillion trees."
But even if this were true, so what?
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Collectively, the social media accounts reached tens of millions of US. persons.
Individual IRA social media accounts attracted hundreds of thousands of followers. For example,
at the time they were deactivated by Facebook in mid?2017, the ?United Muslims of
America? Facebook group had over 300,000 followers, the ?Don?t Shoot Us? Facebook group had
over 250,000 followers, the ?Being Patriotic? Facebook group had over 200,000 followers, and
the ?Secured Borders? Facebook group had over 130,000 followers.61 According to Facebook, in
total the IRA-controlled accounts made over 80,000 posts before their deactivation in August 2017,
and these posts reached at least 29 million US persons and ?may have reached an estimated 126
million people.?62
4. US. Operations Through Twitter
A number of IRA employees assigned to the Translator Department served as Twitter
Specialists. Harm to Ongoing Matter
The lRA?s Twitter operations involved two strategies. First IRA specialists operated
certain Twitter accounts to create individual U.S. personas
Harm to Ongomg Matter
Separately, the IRA operated a network of automated Twitter accounts
(commonly referred to as a bot network) that enabled the IRA to amplify existing content
on Twitter.
a. Individualized Accounts
Harm to Ongoing Matter
Harm to Ongoing Matter
6? See Facebook ID 147993689565674?7 (United Muslims of America); Facebook ID
1157233400960126 (Don?t Shoot); Facebook ID 1601685693432389 Bein_ Patriotic; Facebook ID
757183957716200 Secured Borders). Harm t0 Ongomg Matter
Harm to Ongoing Matter
Harm to Ongoing Matter
62 Social Media Infuence in the 2016 US. Election, Hearing Before the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, 115th Cong. 13 (11/1/17) (testimony of Colin Stretch, General Counsel of Facebook).}