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And they advertise that they need english-speaking employees to help them polish this. but i think the message is really that russia simply doesn t care that that they re not obfuscating what they re doing in trying to influence american public opinion. so i think that they re gambling that there are plenty of americans who would just as soon believe what russia says as what the mass media in the united states says. one of the really striking details in your reporting is the connection to the actual building address, the actual physical location in st. petersburg in russia that housed the internet research agency which was the subject of that robert mueller indictment and the special counsel s investigation into the attack on our election in 2016. what do we know about the connection between this new effort and that effort that resulted in criminal charges? i can t verify that there is an actual connection between this usa really campaign and internet research agency. ....
I want to bring into the conversation now tim johnson, who s a national and cybersecurity reporter for mcclatchy news service. mr. johnson broke the story today of what appears to be a new weird russian op directed at american voters, an effort apparently run out of the same russian troll farm in st. petersburg that was the subject of a robert mueller indictment for their role in attacking the 2016 election. in other words, they re back. and part of the way we know that is this usareally.com website that they have set up as of the last few weeks. tim johnson from mcclatchy news service, thank you very much for being with us tonight. nice to have you with us. you re welcome. one of the things that is striking about this is how bad the american idiomatic english is. there s a lot of misspellings and things that seem weird. this seems like sort of a first effort rather than something that they do after having had a lot of practice with this during the 2016 election. well, as you say ....
Russian troll farm in st. petersburg that was the subject of a robert mueller indictment for their role in attacking the 2016 election. in other words, they re back. and part of the way we know that is this usareally.com website that they have set up as of the last few weeks. tim johnson from mcclatchy news service, thank you very much for being with us tonight. nice to have you with us. you re welcome. one of the things that is striking about this is how bad the american idiomatic english is. there s a lot of misspellings and things that seem weird. this seems like sort of a first effort rather than something that they do after having had a lot of practice with this during the 2016 election. well, as you say, it is rather crudely done. and they advertise that they need english-speaking employees to help them polish this. but i think the message is really that russia simply ....