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It's been known since before the election that social networking platforms were used to influence voters. It's also been known that the Russians hacked into many states election systems even into voter databases, but what's being done about it?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-fec/u-s-election-agency-seeks-comment-after-facebook-cites-russian-ads-idUSKCN1BP2ZR
Foreign governments are allowed under U.S. law to buy ads and publicity for certain issues if they disclose such spending, but it is unlawful for them to interfere in elections.
Last week, Facebook said an operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of U.S. ads promoting social and political messages over a two-year period through May, fueling concerns about foreign meddling in U.S. elections.
U.S. congressional committees and special counsel Robert Mueller are investigating the allegations, which Russia has denied.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/politics/russia-election-hacking.html?mcubz=0&_r=0
After a presidential campaign scarred by Russian meddling, local, state and federal agencies have conducted little of the type of digital forensic investigation required to assess the impact, if any, on voting in at least 21 states whose election systems were targeted by Russian hackers, according to interviews with nearly two dozen national security and state officials and election technology specialists.
The assaults on the vast back-end election apparatus — voter-registration operations, state and local election databases, e-poll books and other equipment — have received far less attention than other aspects of the Russian interference, such as the hacking of Democratic emails and spreading of false or damaging information about Mrs. Clinton. Yet the hacking of electoral systems was more extensive than previously disclosed, The New York Times found.
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