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In reply to the discussion: Mueller's investigation will show GOP Congress co-conspirators [View all]ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Alliance is tracking these trolls and not doing anything to stop them. It's obvious they want to uncover the entire network on the Russian and US sides. However, there are two things about this that bother me. The first is that social media doesn't have any safeguards. The second is that it hurts the credibility of the investigation. Now I can understand that Mueller might be using some of this information in building his case, so he would want to continued presence of the trolls. However, it is downright frightening to me that all of social media is still subject to Russian influence.
I want to imagine that Alliance is also feeding information to the FBI about those American targets of Russian trolling, but I can't be sure they have the resources to handle that. It's a very dangerous game we are playing when we don't know who or how many Americans are going to be triggered by trolling.