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“The focus on the U.S. presidential campaign continued throughout 2016. In [REDACTED: Harm to Ongoing Matter] 2016 internal [REDACTED: Harm to Ongoing Matter] reviewing the IRA-controlled Facebook group “Secured Borders,” the author criticized the “lower number of posts dedicated to criticizing Hillary Clinton” and reminded the Facebook specialist “it is imperative to intensify criticizing Hillary Clinton.”51
IRA employees also acknowledged that their work focused on influencing “IRA employees also acknowledged that their work focused on influencing the U.S. presidential election.”

Excerpt From The Mueller Report: Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election
Robert S. Mueller

“By the end of the 2016 U.S. election, the IRA had the ability to reach millions of U.S. persons through their social media accounts. Multiple IRA-controlled Facebook groups and Instagram accounts had “hundreds of thousands of U.S. participants.”

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