Claim

2016 US election influence campaign INVOLVES social media manipulation

The campaign used social-media trolls, fake news, and other social-media techniques to influence the election.

Episode
EP 65 — PSYOP
Origin
Attributed
Confidence
98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
James Clapper
Attributed source
US intelligence community assessment

Transcript evidence

“very skillful, sophisticated use of social media; social media trolls, planting fake news”

James Clapper · offsets 43153–43242

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T06:26:26.173275+00:00

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