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In this Oct. 12, 2020 file photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, uses his smartphone during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Researchers from NATO StratCom, a NATO-accredited research group based in Riga, Latvia, paid three Russian companies 300 euros ($368) to buy 337,768 fake likes, views and shares of posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok, including content from verified accounts of Sens. Grassley and Chris Murphy. Both senators consented to participate. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool) By Erika Kinetz, Associated Press
BRUSSELS The conversation taking place around two U.S. senators’ verified social media accounts remained vulnerable to manipulation through artificially inflated shares and likes from fake users, even amid heightened scrutiny in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, an investigation by the NATO Strategic Communicat
Report: Social media manipulation affects even US senators
by Erika Kinetz, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 21, 2020 12:01 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 12:12 am EDT
BRUSSELS The conversation taking place on the verified social media accounts of two U.S. senators remained vulnerable to manipulation, even amid heightened scrutiny in the run up to the U.S. presidential election, an investigation by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence found.
Researchers from the centre, a NATO-accredited research group based in Riga, Latvia, paid three Russian companies 300 euros ($368) to buy 337,768 fake likes, views and shares of posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok, including content from verified accounts of Sens. Chuck Grassley and Chris Murphy.