2017-09-28 Home Front: Culture Wars
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GOP senator: Russian trolls using NFL spat to 'push divisiveness' in US
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That's the senator from my state of Oklahoma. A round of applause. Isn't he great?
[The Hill] A Republican senator said Wednesday that Russian trolls are taking advantage of the spat between President Trump and NFL players who protest during the national anthem to "push divisiveness" in the United States.
Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) said trolls are "taking both sides of the argument" by employing hashtags such as "#TakeAKnee" and "#BoycottNFL" on social media.
"They were taking both sides of the argument this past weekend and pushing them out from their troll farms as much as they could to try to just raise the noise level in America and to make a big issue seem like an even bigger issue as they’re trying to push divisiveness in the country," Lankford said during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
"We’ve continued to be able to see that. We will see that again in our election time."
Moscow's efforts at hacking the 2016 elections allegedly included influence campaigns on social media, and officials from Facebook and Google were on Wednesday invited to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee as it probes last year's meddling.
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