Welcome to the Mueller Report Audio.

Executive summary to volume one.

Russian social media campaign.

The Internet Research Agency, IRA, carried out the earliest Russian interference operations identified by the investigation.

A social media campaign designed to provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States.

The IRA was based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and received funding from Russian oligarch,

Yevgeny Pergozim, and companies he controlled.

Pergozim is widely reported to have ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin.

And here's about a line and a half redacted that says harm to ongoing matter.

In mid-2014, the IRA sent employees to the United States on an intelligence-gathering mission with instructions.

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The IRA later used social media accounts

and interest groups to sow discord in the U.S. political system through what it termed information

warfare. The campaign evolved from a generalized program designed in 2014 and 2015 to undermine

the U.S. electoral system to a targeted operation that by early 2016 favored candidate Trump and

disparaged candidate Clinton. The IRA's operation also included the purchase of political

advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities, as well as the staging of

political rallies inside the United States. To organize these rallies, IRA employees posed as U.S. grassroots

entities and persons and made contact with Trump supporters and Trump campaign officials in the

United States. The investigation did not identify evidence that any U.S. persons conspired or

coordinated with the IRA. Section 2 of this report details the office's investigation of the Russian social media

campaign. Russian hacking operations. At the same time that the IRA operation began to focus on

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