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Voters, with specific interests. for example, posting on the pages of women between 20 and 45 from wisconsin, who like hillary clinton, and it works. russian internet trolls set up this facebook group, secured borders. which had 129,000 followers, and even tried to organize an anti-immigration rally in idaho last summer. that's according to russian journalists who uncovered the secured borders facebook site as part of his investigation into russian trolls. he says more than a dozen russian-backed facebook groups had millions of followers. >> they had about 12 or 15 -- 12, 50 million visitors t...

That event was hosted by a facebook group called secured borders. it's since been outed as a russian op, not as an american organization at all. it's been taken down describing it as a putative anti-u.s. immigration community that was outed as a russian front in march. at the time facebook took it down, though, it had over 130,000 u.s. followers. so russia was not just spamming us online with fake news and propaganda and promoting stolen documents they hacked from party sources, they were also using american social media platforms like facebook to try to get americans go demonstrate against mu...

Influence americans during last year's election. what's new from the daily beast today is that russia used facebook to basically try to remote control organize real-life protests in the united states, including one in twin falls, idaho. quoting from the piece, russian operatives hiding behind false identities used facebook's event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests in the u.s., including an august 2016 anti-immigrant, anti-muslim rally in idaho. daily beast uncovered this facebook events posting promoting that rally in twin falls, idaho. it was called citizens ...

Her opponent, the man who is now president of the united states. according to the indictment, the operation began four years ago long before election with intensive studies of different political groups active on social media. in june of 2014, two defendants travelled to the u.s. on false pretenses, stopping in nevada, california, new mexico, colorado, illinois, michigan, louisiana, texas and new york to gather intelligence. later, the alleged conspirators commonly referred to targeting purple states in direct their efforts. the defendants working out of a russian troll farm called the interne...

Secured borders which was very focused on idaho, had 133,000 followers, trying to organize anti-imfrant protests in idaho. this was a russian website using american language trying to involve itself in american politics in a very concrete way. now the question is how did russians know to target idaho? how did they know which accounts to look for? and that's i think the question that the mueller campaign -- the mueller investigation needs to explore now. >> what about spotters? i mean i agree with you, it makes sense that they must have known how to embarrass the dnc by putting out all of that ...