Campaign
campaign:2016_us_election_influence_campaign
Also: 2016 campaign
Campaign described as involving DNC email hacking, timed publication of emails, social-media manipulation, fake news, trolls, and RT propaganda.
Campaign described as involving DNC email hacking, timed publication of emails, social-media manipulation, fake news, trolls, and RT propaganda.
“the 2016 campaign is so different than the others”
“the famous or infamous hacking of the DNC e-mails and the exquisitely-timed dumping of them”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | ATTRIBUTED_TO | Russia | Attributed | 65 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Democratic National Committee email hack | Attributed | 65 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | RT | Attributed | 65 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | social media manipulation | Attributed | 65 |
2016 US election influence campaign ATTRIBUTED_TO Russia
James Clapper says the Russians mounted the most aggressive and direct campaign in the history of US elections to interfere with and influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
Attributed Confidence 97% · James Clapper EP 65 Details
“this was the most aggressive and most direct and most assertive campaign that the Russians ever mounted”
2016 US election influence campaign INVOLVES Democratic National Committee email hack
The campaign is described as involving the hacking and timed release of DNC emails.
Attributed Confidence 98% · James Clapper EP 65 Details
“the famous or infamous hacking of the DNC e-mails and the exquisitely-timed dumping of them”
2016 US election influence campaign INVOLVES RT
Clapper describes a sophisticated propaganda campaign mounted by RT, which he characterizes as a government propaganda arm.
Attributed Confidence 98% · James Clapper EP 65 Details
“A very, I think, sophisticated, slick propaganda campaign mounted by RT which of course is a government propaganda arm.”
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.
Attributed Confidence 98% · James Clapper EP 65 Details
“very skillful, sophisticated use of social media; social media trolls, planting fake news”