Russia allegedly used Pokemon Go to meddle in the US elections

in #cnn7 years ago

CNN reported today that in July 2016, a Tumblr page linked to Russia’s now-notorious Internet Research Agency promoted a contest encouraging people sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement to play the game near famous sites of police brutality. Players were told to change their characters’ names to the victims of those incidents, an apparent effort to inflame racial tensions.

However, when CNN examined the document metadata, "Название," the Russian word for "name," was part of the document properties. Two cybersecurity experts who reviewed the document's metadata told CNN that it was likely created on a computer or a program running Russian as its primary language.

Pretty much the stupidest thing they have ever reported, but that is nothing surprising coming from them...

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