President Trump personally signed off on a US military cyber operation that blocked internet access for a Russian troll farm during the 2018 midterm election, multiple sources briefed on the matter tell NBCNews.
U.S. Cyber Command, working with intelligence gathered by the National Security Agency, shut down internet access at the facility in the hours before the 2018 midterms and for a few days afterward, the sources said.“I would not be surprised if the IRA is extremely frustrated right now,” John Hultquist, chief of intelligence at cyber security firm FireEye, told NBC News.
Bots and trolls have been avoiding detection by creating less original content and merely amplifying extremist messages from politicians and other legitimate sources, Hultquist said.
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