they are the ones that get out the vote. so that s the key part but the issue is that they are very pragmatic so they vote they vote consistently and regularly. he the black men bass siical are the ones that did not vote. 30 facebook pages established, 10 youtube channels. 571 videos related to violence against african-americans. this isn t new. no. no. russia has not just jumped into the business. they have been doing this back during the civil rights movement. so it s the same content, it s the same vernacular, it s the same approach it s just using social media in a digital form. it s the digital form of that type of attack. one of the things you have expertise in is this is also not new to be done and not just by russians. going all the way back to dongle gate. back to 2013. black women have been a particular target on social media. we re talking about americans as well. exactly. dongle gate which is one of
this is really important, what i m about to tell you right now because there s new information about how widespread and aggressive russia s attack on the 2016 election really was. their goal was to get donald trump elected, and they targeted americans through social media. two new reports commissioned by the senate intelligence committee looked at data provided by facebook, by twitter and google, and they found that they were also trying to suppress african-american votes, the african-american vote. analysts found that russians set up 30 facebook pages targeting black americans and 17 youtube channels, 10 of which posted 571 videos related to police violence against african-americans. facebook ads were targeted at users who had shown interest in particular topics including black history, the black panther party, and malcolm x. on youtube, most of the russian
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welcome all, kristen, you re working on this today for msnbc and nbc news tonight. tell us how extensive this is. i mean, these were referenced in indictments from the mueller team early on but this goes so deeply into what was happening in 2016. reporter: this really maps out, andrea, the fact by the attempts with the russians to meddle in the election by using as many forms of social media as they could was far more extensive than we originally understood and tried to promote tribalism but targeted african-americans. you mapped out some of the numbers, andrea. here s more. the russians set up 30 facebook pages targeting african-americans and ten youtube channels and 571 videos related to police violence against african-americans. as you said, some of these posts
these reports. ken, i want do go back to this targeted of african-americans. there s some i want to read from your reporting. the russians set up 30 facebook pages targeting the black community the researches found and 10 youtube channels with 571 videos related to police violence against african-americans. what was the intent? it appears, ali, voter suppression, fomenting distrust in the system, whether clinton or trump is elected the police will still kill african-americans and clinton doesn t care much about that. very sophisticated effort. it appears to have played some role if suppressiof suppressing. they knew which swing states to target including states that clinton didn t know she was vulnerable in like wisconsin,