Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh tossed that bombshell into the political discussion Monday, saying it wouldn’t surprise him because he has evidence the Democrats did exactly that in the 2017 special Senate election in Alabama.
He cites a tech billionaire’s confession to paying the bill.
WND reported the Democrats researched how Russians used social media to influence the 2016 election and deployed the same tactics against Judge Roy Moore in the special election in Alabama.
Later, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman admitted partly funding a group of Democrats that used "disinformation tactics" in the race, which was won by Democrat Doug Jones.
Facebook later suspended five accounts tied to the disinformation campaign, and elections officials in Alabama said they were investigating.
"They created misleading Facebook pages, urged Republicans in Alabama to support a write-in candidate instead of Roy Moore, and ’created false evidence that bots were backing Moore on Twitter’ to spur misleading news headlines," a report about the dark web tactics said.
It was known as Project Birmingham.