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BETSY WOODRUFF, BEN COLLINS, KEVIN POULSEN and SPENCER ACKERMAN at Daily Beast
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-staffers-pushed-russian-propaganda-days-before-the-election
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Some of the Trump campaigns most prominent names and supporters, including Trumps campaign manager, digital director and son, pushed tweets from professional trolls paid by the Russian government in the heat of the 2016 election campaign.
The Twitter account @Ten_GOP, which called itself the Unofficial Twitter account of Tennessee Republicans, was operated from the Kremlin-backed Russian troll farm, or Internet Research Agency, a source familiar with the account confirmed with The Daily Beast.
The accounts origins in the Internet Research Agency were originally reported by the independent Russian news outlet RBC. @Ten_GOP was created on November 19, 2015, and accumulated over 100 thousand followers before Twitter shut it down. The Daily Beast independently confirmed the reasons for @Ten_GOP's account termination.
The discovery of the now-unavailable tweets presents the first evidence that several members of the Trump campaign pushed covert Russian propaganda on social media in the run-up to the 2016 election.
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