How Russia Harvested American Rage to Reshape U.S. Politics<br />The Russian pages — with names like “Being Patriotic,” “Secured Borders”<br />and “Blacktivist” — cribbed complaints about federal agents from one conservative website, and a gauzy article about a veteran who became an entrepreneur from People magazine.<br />A New York Times examination of hundreds of those posts shows<br />that one of the most powerful weapons that Russian agents used to reshape American politics was the anger, passion and misinformation that real Americans were broadcasting across social media platforms.<br />Mr. Shah said when he noticed the ripped video, he wrote to the administrator of the<br />United Muslims account, asking them to add the link to his original YouTube video.<br />“What do you think — we’re saints?”<br />In early 2016, Being Patriotic copied and pasted a story from the conspiracy site InfoWars, saying<br />that federal employees had taken “land from private property owners at pennies on the dollar.” The Russian page added some original text: “The nation can’t trust the federal government anymore.
