It must all be true. George Snuffleupagus said so. Maybe the Russians were also behind the 'hands up, don't shoot' myth, the editing of George Zimmerman's 911 call, Obama calling police stupid, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch injecting race into everything, and pretty much everything that comes out of Maxine Waters' mouth. https://www.yahoo.com/gma/russian-i...-american-210504700--abc-news-topstories.html Russian internet trolls sought to co-opt unwitting American activists From their desks in St. Petersburg, Russian internet trolls at a company with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to co-opt American civil rights activists and use them to stoke racial tensions and stir political unrest, authorities said. Congressional investigators tell ABC News that two online groups — BlackMattersUS and BlackFist — were among those used by Russian operators to reach out directly to unwitting individual Americans engaged in political activism and, in this case, encourage them to help organize rallies, train in self-defense and create music videos. In some cases, those activists even received financial support. This effort, according to authorities, was the brainchild of the Internet Research Agency, the same St. Petersburg-based company identified by members of Congress as a key arm of the larger Russian operation aimed at influencing U.S. elections. That effort, as first reported by the the Russian publication RBC, now appears to be much broader than previously known, moving beyond the virtual world. The Facebook and Twitter accounts associated with both groups have since been suspended, and ABC News could not reach any of the people identified online as being members of either group. Executives from both social media giants are expected to appear before Congress early next month to discuss steps they are taking to confront Russian efforts to infiltrate their platform, the scope of which is still not fully understood.
Co-opting witless activists isn't exactly high intrigue considering they'll believe damn near anything so long as it has an anti American slant to it.
Charlotte shooting protest had hidden help – a Russian troll farm http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article179562956.html The Russian troll farm suspected of trying to disrupt U.S. elections last year apparently infiltrated Charlotte during racial protests last year, BuzzFeed News reports. The online news site says the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency recruited U.S. activists to help stage protests in order to help divide the nation ahead of the 2016 elections. Conrad James of the Raleigh nonprofit Living Ultra-Violet was among four activists who told BuzzFeed they never suspected they were being recruited by the Russians. James told the news site he was contacted by BlackMattersUS, which the Russian news outlet RBC linked to the Russian troll farm. James said BlackMattersUS asked him to speak at a rally following the September 2016 police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, which sparked two days of protests. “I thought it was a knockoff of Black Lives Matter,” James told BuzzFeed, but its website appeared legitimate. Living Ultra-Violet’s Twitter feed describes itself as a “Millennial Think-tank intellectually innovating economic development, research, and altruism.” The Observer couldn’t reach James on Wednesday. James told BuzzFeed that he volunteered to organize the rally himself when he learned it had no organizer. The BlackMattersUS Facebook page, he said, connected him to a woman named Stephanie Williamson. Williamson appeared with a white man who never spoke or smiled, James said, but gave him a bank card for microphones and loudspeakers for the rally and permits for the event. Williamson could not be reached Wednesday. James told BuzzFeed he organized a larger rally for BlackMattersUS in Charlotte last October. The BlackMatters YouTube account has an 8-minute video, apparently shot at Marshall Park, titled “Stephanie Williamson at BM Charlotte protest.” The Charlotte Department of Transportation said it issued no permits for a street protest in September and October 2016. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Wednesday that none of the roughly 120 amplified noise permits it issued in those two months appeared to be related to Scott protests. The BlackMattersUS website lists activist Andrew Fede as someone who attended the Oct. 22 protest, which took place at Marshall Park and then moved to CMPD headquarters. Fede told the Observer he wasn’t aware of any Russian involvement in the protest, and didn’t return follow-up phone calls to the Observer. The BlackMattersUS web site has some unusual grammatical errors. The site, for instance, site says “we are especially delighted and proud of the activists participated in the event. This shows that we have not rested on our bowels in the fight for total liberation and justice.” It also states: “Every share Makes Black Voice louder.” James said he learned BlackMattersUS was linked to a Russian troll farm when RBC reporters contacted him a few weeks ago. The revelation was “angering,” James told BuzzFeed, that “they were using black culture here in America as a springboard for a divisive tactic and strategy.”
False flag ops are spycraft 101. These morons were only too eager to help. I would be cautious in assuming too much even now. For all we know, the "Russian troll farms" were Deep State ops designed to cast blame on the Russians.