iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Mar 1, 2021 5:51am House Leader Pablo Rodriguez is expected to appear before the House ethics committee this afternoon. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
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explore the Kremlin’s recent social media influence campaigns in the United States by analyzing the effectiveness of Russia’s information operations and the susceptibility of specific social groups in the United States to the content that Russia promotes. They find that Kremlin proxies are now better able to conceal themselves to exploit an increasingly polarized US domestic politics, and that those on the extreme ends of the political spectrum were most likely to engage with this content in 2020.
Scholars and policy experts largely agree that in recent years, the Russian government – the Kremlin – has consistently attempted to use social media to interfere in US elections in an effort to amplify existing social divisions and undermine US international standing. While the extent to which such operations were ultimately successful in achieving Russia’s goals remains a subject of scholarly debates, some observers believe that in 2016 the hacks and leaks of the emails from th