Facebook acknowledged hundreds of fake accounts, probably run from Russia, spent about $100,000 on ads aimed at stoking divisive issues like race relationsīy Hannah Parry For and Reuters.to try to raise the noise level of America and make a big issue seem like an even bigger issue,' he said 'They were taking both sides of the argument.
He said they have been sharing the hashtags 'take a knee' and 'boycott NFL' to amplify the issue and spread discord.James Lankford, of Oklahoma, has claimed that Russian trolls have been stoking the NFL debate to rile up divisiveness
It’s not as much fun in that we’re so consumed with other things. In an interview with the Washington Post, Harkin was asked whether US Senate was “not as fun for him as it used to be.” No, it’s not, Harkin offered, and he pointed to, of all things, the spiraling cost of elections as a major reason why: He announced over the weekend that he won’t seek reelection in 2016. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), a graying liberal lion, is calling it quits. Subscribe to our print magazine.Īfter 40 years in Congress, Sen.
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