The potential audience for the content spread by Russian-backed accounts connected to a single pro-Kremlin firm, the Internet Research Agency, reveals for the first time the reach of the alleged Russian disruption. But critics including lawmakers said the accounts likely had much broader scope including their organic content, such as free posts and events listings. Stretch plans to say that “any amount” of fake or malicious activity is “too much,” while at the same time playing down its importance, according to the prepared remarks. Stretch plans to argue that these posts were a small fraction of the content consumed by Americans during this period—0.004% of posts, or one out of 23,000 pieces of content. Click for more from The Wall Street Journal.

Source: Fox News October 30, 2017 22:18 UTC