Yesterday’s N.Y. Times leads with an investigation by Scott Shane into “The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election”:

“The Russian information attack on the election did not stop with the hacking and leaking of Democratic emails … Far less splashy … was Russia’s experimentation on Facebook and Twitter.”

“On Twitter, as on Facebook, Russian fingerprints are on hundreds or thousands of fake accounts that regularly posted anti-Clinton messages. Many were automated Twitter accounts, called bots, that sometimes fired off identical messages seconds apart.”

Why it matters: “The fakery may have added only modestly to the din of genuine American voices in the pre-election melee, but it helped fuel a fire of anger and suspicion in a polarized country.”

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