Reuters: Exclusive: Russian operation masqueraded as right-wing news site to target U.S. voters - sources
LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has posed as an independent news outlet to target right-wing social media users ahead of this year’s vote, two people familiar with an FBI probe into the activity told Reuters.
The latest operation centred around a pseudo media organisation called the Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens (NAEBC), which was run by people associated with the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, the sources said.
U.S. prosecutors say the agency played a key role in Russian efforts to sway the 2016 election in favour of President Donald Trump, and Facebook and Twitter exposed a fake left-wing media outlet in September which they said was run by people connected to the organisation.
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WNU Editor: The FBI's focus is on the news website called Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens (NAEBC). I was naturally curious to see what they are writing about that got the attention of the FBI, so I tried to look for it. It was not easy to find this website. Its not highly ranked by Google, which tells me that the traffic to it must be very low. But I did find it, and the link is here. The site is basically a news aggregator that takes news reports from the main stream media, and puts a "conservative" bent/commentary to it. They do not post much .... maybe 2 or 3 posts a day, and most of what they post has already been reported by the wire services. From what I have seen .... this "news website" has little if any traffic. They are not present on social media. And what they are posting is not interesting. If this is the example that the FBI is using to make their case that Russia is trying to influence the US electorate, I am laughing hysterically right now.
