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Government Unfiltered

II. Russian "Active Measures" Social Media Campaign (Mueller Report)

Government Unfiltered

Dan Williams

Politics, News, Government

4.8 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 23 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." This podcast covers pages 14 to 35 of the report.

This section is heavily redacted citing, in most cases, "Harm to Ongoing Matter," and we introduce a sound effect to help note the skipped areas of redaction, while trying to provide context for the redactions when possible.

Russian "Active Measures" Social Media Campaign (0:15)

  1. Structure of the Internet Research Agency (3:11)
  2. Funding and Oversight from Concord and Prigozhin (3:53)
  3. The IRA Targets U.S. Elections (4:51)
    1. The IRA Ramps Up U.S. Operations As Early As 2014 (4:56)
    2. U.S. Operations Through IRA-Controlled Social Media Accounts (6:02)
    3. U.S. Operations Through Facebook (8:21)
    4. U.S. Operations Through Twitter (11:39)
      1. Individualized Accounts (12:12)
      2. IRA Botnet Activities (13:49)
    5. U.S. Operations Involving Political Rallies (14:24)
    6. Targeting and Recruitment of U.S. Persons (16:32)
    7. Interactions and Contacts with the Trump Campaign (18:07)
      1. Trump Campaign Promotion of IRA Political Materials (18:48)
      2. Contact with Trump Campaign Officials in Connection to Rallies (20:27)

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Transcript

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0:19.6

Welcome to the Mueller Report audio.

0:22.3

And a note before we get started, this section is very redacted.

0:26.4

But we'll try and get through it and see what we can read.

0:29.6

Section 2.

0:31.1

Russian Active Measures Social Media Campaign.

0:34.4

The first form of Russian election influence came principally from the Internet

0:38.5

Research Agency LLC, IRA, a Russian organization funded by Yovgeny Vyodorovich Bergozin,

0:45.1

and companies he controlled, including Concord Management and Consulting LLC and Concord

0:49.7

Catering, collectively conquered. The IRA conducted social media operations targeted at large U.S. audiences with the goal of sowing discord in the U.S. political system.

1:00.0

These operations constituted active measures, a term that typically refers to operations conducted by Russian security services aimed at influencing the course of international affairs.

1:10.0

The IRA and its employees began operations

1:12.2

targeting the United States as early as 2014. Using fictitious U.S. personas, IRA employees operated

1:18.7

social media accounts and group pages designed to attract U.S. audiences. These groups and accounts,

1:23.8

which address divisive U.S. political and social issues, falsely claimed to be

1:27.9

controlled by U.S. activists. Over time, these social media accounts became a means to reach

1:32.9

large U.S. audiences. IRA employees traveled to the United States in mid-2014 on an intelligence

1:39.3

gathering mission to obtain information and photographs for use in their social media posts.

1:44.4

IRA employees posted derogatory information about a number of candidates in the 2016 U.S.

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