Using Facebook accounts based in Saint Petersburg, they posed as Americans and lured users to a free hot-dog event in New York. Of course, the trolls in Saint Petersburg didn’t provide the promised food to the New Yorkers whom they watched gather through a publicly accessible webcam in Times Square; rather, it was a successful experiment proving that, from their screens in Russia, they could orchestrate events in the physical world. This seemingly small feat would soon move far beyond hot dogs, and into the realm of inciting clashes among rival American groups at political rallies in the
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