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“The most prolific I.R.A. efforts on Facebook and Instagram specifically targeted black American communities (cộng đồng) and appear to have been focused on developing black audiences and recruiting black Americans as assets,” the report says.…The report says that while “other distinct (riêng biệt) ethnic and religious groups were the focus of one or two Facebook Pages or Instagram accounts, the black community was targeted extensively with dozens.” In some cases, Facebook ads were targeted at users who had shown interest in particular topics, including black history, the Black Panther Party and Malcolm X. The most popular of the Russian Instagram accounts was @blackstagram, with 303,663 followers.

The Internet Research Agency also created a dozen websites disguised (cải trang) as African-American in origin (nguồn gốc), with names like blackmattersus.com, blacktivist.info,  blacktolive.org and blacksoul.us. On YouTube, the largest share of Russian material covered the Black Lives Matter movement and police brutality, with channels called “Don’t Shoot” and “BlackToLive.”

…Of 81 Facebook pages created by the Internet Research Agency in the Senate’s data, 30 targeted African-American audiences, amassing 1.2 million followers.

The fact that Black Lives Matter was promoted by the Russians doesn’t detract (làm mất lòng) from their legitimate goals (mục tiêu chính đáng). Nevertheless, one can imagine the Russians chortling (cười khúc khích) at how successful their attacks have been. Mark Zuckerberg is one of America’s most successful entrepreneurs, the creator of Facebook, a world-dominant firm, a firm that the Russians and Chinese fear and instead of rejoicing in America’s success, America’s political class are seeking to take Facebook and its CEO down through the petty politics of identity.

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