On the recordMay 15, 2019
From volume I, page 14, section 2, entitled: ``Russian `Active Measures' Social Media Campaign,'' it read as follows: ``The IRA''--which was a Russian troll farm. ``The IRA and its employees began operations targeting the United States as early as 2014. Using fictitious U.S. personas, IRA employees operated social media accounts and group pages designed to attract U.S. audiences. These groups and accounts, which addressed divisive U.S. political and social issues, falsely claimed to be controlled by U.S. activists. Over time, the social media accounts became a means to reach large U.S. audiences. IRA employees traveled to the United States in mid-2014 on an intelligence-gathering mission to obtain information and photographs for use in their social media posts.''
