The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report on Russia’s interference in the U.S. presidential election Friday afternoon, hours after briefing President-elect Donald Trump on its contents. The report states that the the CIA, FBI, and NSA all believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election.”
According to the ODNI, these efforts included not just covert cyberattacks on American institutions and political parties but also a significant misinformation campaign carried out by Russia’s state-funded media and “paid social media users or ‘trolls.’”
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