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Reported today. but i want to start with something that came out in mid-may. "time" magazine published a big story about one prong of the russian attack on the u.s. election last year. as we've been talking about that, it had three different components. first there was the straight up hacking effort by russia to try to penetrate local and state election systems all over the country. mostly targeting voter registration rolls. we still don't have a clear sense of why they did that, what they did with the access that they gained through that attack. what they were trying to do, whether that might...

The bots and products were largely millions of twitter and facebook posts on internet sites like breitbart and infowars as well as on kremlin-backed rt news and sputnik news. that was the scoop that mcclatchy had in march. importantly, in march, mcclatchy noted that those bot attacks, those were now the subject of federal investigation being led by the fbi counterintelligence. the fbi was looking into whether conservative websites in the united states, sites like breitbart news and infowars, whether they might have knowingly helped russian operatives who were carrying out this attack. that was...

Posts on internet sites like breitbart news and infowars as well as on kremlin-backed rt news and sputnik news. that was the scoop that mcclatchy had in march. importantly, in march, mcclatchy noted that those bot attacks, those were now the subject of federal investigation being led by the fbi counterintelligence. the fbi was looking into whether conservative websites in the united states, sites like breitbart news and infowars, whether they might have knowingly helped russian operatives who were carrying out this attack. that was in march. investigative reporter peter stone and greg gordon, ...