{"id":1578727,"date":"2022-07-29T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1578727"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:25:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:25:33","slug":"biden-state-department-offers-10-million-reward-for-info-on-russian-internet-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-state-department-offers-10-million-reward-for-info-on-russian-internet-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden State Department Offers $10 Million Reward For Info On Russian\u00a0Internet Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-state-department-offers-10-million-reward-for-info-on-russian-internet-trolls%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1578727&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2016-02-05T120000Z_708747973_GF10000296949_RTRMADP_3_UKRAINE-CRISIS-scaled-e1659108289653.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The State Department announced a reward of up to $10 million for information relating to the \u201cidentification or location\u201d of a group of Russian internet trolls, who the department claims interfered with U.S. elections.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department is particularly interested in information relating to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian company that the State Department claims \u201cengaged in political and electoral interference operations,\u201d in a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/rewards-for-justice-reward-offer-for-information-on-russian-interference-in-u-s-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media note<\/a>. The Department of Justice (DOJ)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/file\/1035477\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">indicted<\/a> the IRA in 2018, for allegedly influencing federal elections, alongside the associated Concord Management and several Russian individuals, who the DOJ alleges funded the IRA. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/06\/05\/report-nsa-document-outlines-russian-hacking-campaign-just-before-2016-election\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Report: NSA Document Outlines Russian Hacking Campaign Just Before 2016 Election)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1906420116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>\u00a0published a 2019 study that questioned the efficacy of IRA activity, claiming that interaction with IRA accounts did not substantially alter the political behavior of monitored accounts over a one-month period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]hese findings suggest that Russian trolls might have failed to sow discord because they mostly interacted with those who were already highly polarized,\u201d the study states.<\/p>\n<p>The charges against Concord were dropped by the Justice Department in 2020, during one of the few trials associated with the indictment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/concord-case-russian-interference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> reported. The DOJ alleged that Concord was using the trial to learn how the DOJ investigated foreign misinformation networks, and recommended the charges be dropped in the interest of national security.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Repetitiveness is a defining feature of pro-Kremlin disinformation, as it makes their lies sound more believable. Over the next weeks, we\u2019re bringing you an overview of five key narratives in pro-Kremlin disinfo. Narrative #1: the Elites v the People. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dk5vHwPiTU\">https:\/\/t.co\/Dk5vHwPiTU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EUvsDisinfo (@EUvsDisinfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EUvsDisinfo\/status\/1552898711856025601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The IRA has also been involved in attempts to spread misinformation about the Russo-Ukraine war, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/infamous-russian-troll-farm-appears-to-be-source-of-anti-ukraine-propaganda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProPublica<\/a>. Several accounts associated with the IRA, took video of a Vienna climate protest, in which protestors covered themselves in body bags but were still visibly alive, and claimed that the video showed Ukrainians faking civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The IRA was responsible for a number of accounts that were extraordinarily popular, and had a particular focus on Instagram, where the IRA used several accounts targeted at black Americans to \u201cexacerbate divisions and stoke resentment\u201d between cultural groups, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-instagram-became-russian-iras-social-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some posts by the IRA on Facebook and Instagram claimed that they were made by Americans, specifically mocking the idea that they were posted by Russians, Wired reports.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department announced a reward of up to $10 million for information relating to the \u201cidentification or location\u201d of a group of Russian internet trolls, who the department claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1181,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}