When Facebook’s chief counsel, Colin Stretch, testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on November 1, 2017, alongside lawyers from Google and Twitter, he revealed the most troubling statistics yet about Russia’s influence on the election. More than 80,000 posts from Russian accounts had been posted to Facebook, some boosted by advertising, stirring up controversy in the U.S. about immigration, gun control, gay rights, and race relations. Russia’s goal had been to infiltrate interest groups in the United States, and then make them angry. In the process, Stretch said, the posts
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