Russia has been setting up a network of online news media sleeper sites in the U.S.

[pnwmom]

Using names that sound like local news sites (or sometimes, local papers that went defunct), they have been posting conventional news stories while they build up readership and trust.

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/628085238/russian-influence-campaign-sought-to-exploit-americans-trust-in-local-news?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180712

Russia's information attack against the United States during the 2016 election cycle sought to take advantage of the greater trust that Americans tend to place in local news.

The information operatives who worked out of the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg did not stop at posing as American social media users or spreading false information from purported news sources, according to new details.

They also created a number of Twitter accounts that posed as sources for Americans' hometown headlines.

NPR has reviewed information connected with the investigation and found 48 such accounts. They have names such as @ElPasoTopNews, @MilwaukeeVoice, @CamdenCityNews and @Seattle_Post.

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[OnDoutside]

1. And what's going to be done about them ?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Trump is consulting with his handler at summit in Finland for instructions. . . . nt

[uponit7771]

6. +1

[BadgerMom]

3. K and R

This as Kirstjen Nielsen tells us there’s no need to worry because Russian interference isn’t as bad as 2016. She forgot one word: “yet.”

[Liberty Belle]

4. Thanks to Twitter for finding these and kicking them off.

But how many are still lurking on FB or other social media?

[secondwind]

5. This is scary shit. Resist!!

[joshcryer]

7. The information war began in 2004.

It was first used successfully in 2008.

Between 2011 and 2018 it has been used with mix results in many countries to manipulate and manage their societal foundations.

[Laffy Kat]

8. Terrifying.

Attacking us from the inside out.

[HipChick]

9. If I knew nothing was going to be done about it, that is what I would do..

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[Achilleaze]

11. republicans applauding their russian treason-mates

[mitch96]

12. Playing the long game is right!

In the early 1950's the russians tried to help Stevenson's campaign against Eisenhower.. What did Stevenson do? He went straight to the Whitehouse and told Eisenhower what was going on.. The red menace was always trying to fuck with our elections.. Especially if the person running was anti russian.
This time they hit with the orange menace...
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[Shanti Mama]

13. That NPR is reporting it gives me some degree of hope that someone, somewhere

in the government is working on this.