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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

2/20/18 A&G Hr. 4 The Russian Trolls Aim to Confuse

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Daily News, News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Unlike the adorable characters from the animated film, Russian Trolls aim to disrupt our lives and undermine our political system. Washington Post reporter Rosalind Helderman joins A&G for details about how the trolls became part of our 2016 election experience.

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Music

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Known out, it is a fascinating story thrown through the way the Russians messed with our

0:19.3

campaigns and election and the media and continue to mess with our stories and our society.

0:24.6

Our society and it's working.

0:27.0

And I feel like we're finally moving past the time when everybody is looking at this

0:31.1

through a partisan or a pro-Trump anti-Trump lens and we're finally understanding it as

0:36.1

Americans.

0:37.1

Rosalind Helderman of the Washington Post has been one of the journalists working this

0:41.6

for that esteemed newspaper.

0:44.3

She's got a terrific piece along with several colleagues, including Armstrong and Gidey

0:48.4

Faves, Elinak Hashima and Craig Timberg online.

0:51.6

We have a link to it about the Russian troll farms and how they tried to mess with us.

0:56.0

And Rosalind Helderman joins us now.

0:57.7

Rosalind, how are you?

0:58.7

I'm doing okay.

0:59.7

How are you guys?

1:00.7

We're terrific.

1:01.7

Thank you.

1:02.7

The phrase troll farm brings to mind something out of the brother's grim or something like

1:06.2

that.

1:07.2

But the actual mechanics of what was in essence a company dedicated to the notion of messing

1:14.0

with America's heads is really interesting.

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