II. Russian "Active Measures" Social Media Campaign (Mueller Report, Nov. 2020 update)

Government Unfiltered

Dan Williams

Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This episode covers the structure of the Internet Research Agency, the funding and oversight of the IRA, and the methods in which the IRA targeted the 2016 U.S. Election, as part of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election (Volume 1)."

The November 2020 update to this section uncovers significant amounts of previously redacted material from pages 14 to 35 of the report.

Russian "Active Measures" Social Media Campaign (1:14)

Structure of the Internet Research Agency (4:16)
Funding and Oversight from Concord and Prigozhin (7:13)
1. The IRA Ramps Up U.S. Operations As Early As 2014 (8:58)
2. U.S. Operations Through IRA-Controlled Social Media Accounts (12:16)
3. U.S. Operations Through Facebook (15:57)
  1. Individualized Accounts (21:03)
  2. IRA Botnet Activities (24:03)
4. U.S. Operations Through Twitter (20:11)
5. U.S. Operations Involving Political Rallies (25:39)
6. Targeting and Recruitment of U.S. Persons (28:16)
  1. Trump Campaign Promotion of IRA Political Materials (32:15)
  2. Contact with Trump Campaign Officials in Connection to Rallies (34:02)
7. Interactions and Contacts with the Trump Campaign (31:32)
The IRA Targets U.S. Elections (8:52)

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0:00.0	This is the Mueller Report audio, presented by Government Unfiltered.
0:08.0	I'm Dan Williams.
0:10.0	This version of the Mueller Report contains updates released by the Department of Justice in June and November 2020,
0:18.0	following lawsuits by Buzzfeed News and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
0:24.0	Due to these new releases and through the support of your donations,
0:28.0	I'm re-releasing the Mull Report audio to replace the previous versions
0:32.0	and compiling the subsections into their larger sections.
0:36.0	The previous episodes will be archived and available at mullerreport audio.com.
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0:57.2	continue to read public documents and make them available here in audio format you
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1:05.2	Patreon.com slash timberlain media. Section 2, Russian Active Measures Social Media Campaign
1:19.8	The first form of Russian Election Influence
1:22.1	came principally from the Internet Research Agency LLC, IRA.
1:26.0	A Russian organization funded by Jenny Victorovich Burgosin and companies he controlled including Concord Management and Consulting LLC
1:34.1	and Concord Catering, collectively Concord.
1:37.6	The IRA conducted social media operations targeted at large US audiences
1:42.0	with the goal of sewing discord in the US political system.
1:45.7	These operations constituted active measures, a term that typically refers to operations conducted
1:51.0	by Russian security services aimed at influencing the course of international
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