Trump approved operation that disabled Russian troll farm

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President Trump personally signed off on a US military cyber operation that blocked internet access for a Russian troll farm during the 2018 midterm election, multiple sources briefed on the matter tell NBCNews.

U.S. Cyber Command, working with intelligence gathered by the National Security Agency, shut down internet access at the facility in the hours before the 2018 midterms and for a few days afterward, the sources said.“I would not be surprised if the IRA is extremely frustrated right now,” John Hultquist, chief of intelligence at cyber security firm FireEye, told NBC News.

Bots and trolls have been avoiding detection by creating less original content and merely amplifying extremist messages from politicians and other legitimate sources, Hultquist said.

 

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I can here it now....MAGA crowd going to crow ‘see he is tough on Russian’. Let’s pause and remember this is a sitting US President ok’ing an action to stop foreign interference into our elections, Like he doesn’t get a cookie for that-He’s supposed to protect the USA!!!

This is only coming out now because Michael Cohen's testimony tomorrow wake up folks

Holy crap!

Is that a good thing or bad. It sounds like a good thing.

Nice cover.

Why would a Putin stooge do that?

If the media could tell the truth like this all the time people would realize this whole Russia collusion thing is the most ridiculous hoax.

But but but, he is supposed to collude with Russia? Are you now saying that was a huge conspiracy?

Wow! He finally did something right! That puts him at 1 and 30.

Too bad Obama didn't.... ever

The left hates to hear that, poor TheDemocrats and their false narratives. Only 6 more years...

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