Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics

The reports, from the University of Oxford’s Computational Propaganda Research Project and the firm New Knowledge , do provide the most thorough look at Russian social-media activity to date. With an abundance of data, charts, graphs, and tables, coupled with extensive qualitative analysis, the authors scrutinize the output of the Internet Research Agency (IRA) the Russian clickbait firm indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller in February 2018. On every significant metric, it is difficult to square the data with the dramatic conclusions that have been drawn.