cost." and mcclatchy now reports that mcclatchy is reporting that the bot attacks, the bot traffic is part of the fbi's counterintelligence investigation into the russian attack on the election and the question about whether or not there was trump campaign cooperation in mount that attack. quoting for mcclatchy "operatives for russia appear to have strategically timed bots to blitz social media with links to o-trumstories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive." "the bots' end products were largely millions of twitter and facebook posts with links to stories on breitbart news and infowars as well as kremlin-backed media outlets like rt and sputnik news." federal investigators examining the bot attacks are exploring when the the far-right news operations took any actions to assist russia's operatives. in other words were they in on