Russia 'meddled in all big social media' around US election.

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▼ Russia used every major social media platform to try to influence the 2016 US election, a report claims.
New research says YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram and PayPal - as well as Facebook and Twitter - were leveraged to spread propaganda.
The report, released today by the US Senate, exposes the scale of Russian disinformation efforts.
Its authors criticise the "belated and unco-ordinated response" by tech firms.
The report was put together by University of Oxford's Computational Propaganda Project and the social network analysis firm Graphika.
It is the first analysis of millions of social media posts provided by Twitter, Google and Facebook to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
While Facebook and Twitter have  previously disclosed Russian interference,little has been known about the use of other platforms.
The report suggests YouTube, Tumblr, PayPal and Google+ were all affected, with Russia adapting techniques from digital marketing to target audiences across multiple channels.
"It's a whole family of social media sites," says Philip N Howard, director of the Oxford Internet Institute. "We think the goal was to make the campaigns seem more legitimate."
The research details a vast campaign  spearheaded by the Internet Research  Agency(IRA) - a Russian company that has been described by the United States Intelligence Community as a troll farm with ties to the Russian government. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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