Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein on Feb. 16 announced the indictment of 13 Russians linked to a troll farm as part of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into meddling in the 2016 election. ‘It is spooky’Prosecutors said the Russians, using fake identities, contacted Trump campaign staffers in Florida offering to hold rallies to support Trump. “It’s not the way I do the business; it’s not the way the Trump campaign in Florida did business,” she said. If they want to see the devil — let them.”The Internet Research Agency was at the center of Silicon Valley’s investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 election. A Twitter spokesman said: “Russian efforts to disrupt the 2016 U.S. election, in part by abusing social media platforms, go against everything we at Twitter believe.

Source: Washington Post February 16, 2018 18:11 UTC