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Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans
“The most prolific I.R.A. efforts on Facebook and Instagram specifically targeted black American communities and appear to have been focused on developing black audiences and recruiting black Americans as assets,” the report says. Using Gmail accounts with American-sounding names, the Russians recruited and sometimes paid unwitting American activists of all races to stage rallies and spread content, but there was a disproportionate pursuit of African-Americans, it concludes.
The report says that while “other distinct 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/russia-2016-influence-campaign.html
The funny thing is... the Russian Government understands the negative influence and negative effect that rap music has on the American population. So not only did they let us kill ourselves for a while... they are now going to expose us for the culture that the government funded, perpetuated, and profited from.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/europe/russia-rap-war-intl/index.html