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Daily beast found this group secured borders which purports to be an american group. it is not an american group. it was operated by russian agents. "daily beast" had the first report on them back on september 11th that this was one of these fake i'd at this time russian facebook groups that appeared to be american but it wasn't. what it was trying to do online was ginn up fear of immigrants. secured borders tried to get americans to go anti-clinton rallies in places like idaho. then two days later "business insider" turned up another facebook entity secretly run out of russia. this was called...

New york that has started to look at the reach of this russian active measures campaign that they ran against american voters on line. again, we don't have anything from the companies. so this is just what we know from open journalistic sources about what the russians are doing online. professor albright last week published research looking at the online reach of just six, he just picked six of these fake online entities that were created by russian agents to influence our election. just six of them that have been ferreted out by u.s. journalists. he looked at heart of texas. being patriotic. ...

There. and this heart of texas group was an i love texas group, but and a pro texas secession group but mostly they appear to have been anti-hillary clinton. some of it idiomaticly correct and some of it not. >> this one i don't know what it means literally by i get the point anyway. no hypoclintos in the god-blessed texas. i don't know what they mean. figuratively i get it. they also promoted hillary for prison. this was them too. hillary, stay away from texas, with the photo shopped image of her with osama bin laden. ultimately this russian group on facebook started to promote an idea that m...

Wins, end quote, the election. like and share if you agree with me. anybody who saw that hillary clinton unflattering picture, pure evil of the phrased caption was looking at the work not of some trump supporter or of the trump campaign or even some radical texas secessionist who likes shape of texas. if you saw that -- anybody who saw that online, that was from moscow. or st. petersburg. that was from a russian government info operation targeting you as an american voter. that's what they did. and the only reason we know that is because journalists have been able to sort of reverse engineer t...

Was russian-paid content on facebook trying to affect the election. so in a rush, in this past month, we've had all this good, in-depth concrete reporting to actually make it nuts and bolts. to give us something to look at. give us something to see so we can understand how russia operated within our election. just over the past month we've had this rush of reporting that makes it not so much an esoteric thing. it means we can see it. now we know. this is what is russia did during the election. this was russian. they're calling themselves heart of texas, but they got on facebook and said, pure ...