Russians released anti-Clinton video game weeks before election
Source: CNN
by Jose Pagliery and Donie O'Sullivan @CNNTech
March 8, 2018: 12:48 PM ET
Russians created an anti-Hillary Clinton video game called "Hilltendo" and tried to make it go viral in the weeks before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, CNN has determined through a review of internet records and computer code.
It's one of the strangest ways yet discovered that Russians tried to influence the American election. But it's indicative of just how creative Russian internet trolls were willing to be.
On the surface, it looks like a silly, Flash-based game of the sort that populated the internet for years. Yet Hilltendo appears to be more sophisticated than that. In fact, it may indicate an intent to zero in on the people who played the game, track their behavior on social media, and hit them later with micro-targeted advertisements, according to several website programmers and cybersecurity experts who viewed the code at CNN's request.
The evidence is embedded in the website's code, internet records, the methodical campaign to make Hilltendo gain popularity online, and a Russian software developer's ties to the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/08/technology/hilltendo-russians-anti-clinton-video-game/index.html
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