Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51480/compress.2024.7-1.695Keywords:
Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump, Hillary Trump, Interference, Internet Research Agency, Internet trolls, LGBT, Presidential campaign, Russian Federation, Russian services, Social media, United States, U.S. presidential election, Senate Intelligence Committee, Vladimir Putin, WikiLeaksAbstract
This article addresses the role of Russian Federation involvement in the 2016 US presidential election. The article focuses on both the analysis of Russian influence strategy and methods of operation against US voting blocs and political institutions during the 2016 US presidential campaign. The research problem of the following article is to demonstrate through which information operations and IT technology tools Russian services sought to interfere in the electoral process and undermine democracy in the United States. The following article is based, among other things, on scientific literature, reports prepared for the U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence, articles from prestigious journals and portals available on the Internet.
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