Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190725:19:09:00
>> in terms of your research, to give folks a better sense of how it worked. you go, you click on a news story, we see some of these tweets embedded in a story. what you found is that a lot of those tweets were part of this whole russian plan? >> yes, exactly. unwittingly, i don't think the journalists who wrote these stories even realized there were russian trolls that were embedded in these news stories. what we did is, we looked for the russian troll account names and we found that about 60% of them, 71 outlets had one story, at least one story with an ira tweet in them. these are russian t...