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 it. investigators examining the bot attacks are exploring whether the far right news operations to assist russia's operatives. the investigation of the bot engineered traffic appears to be in its early stages but it's being driven by the fbi's counterintelligence division. so if mcclatchy sources are correct, we now know that what appeared to be a mysterious tidal wave that turned social media into brainless anti-clinton mush during the campaign that was not only part