Niall Ferguson’s Networld

The Social Media Operation That Divided Americans

Clip: 03/17/2020 | 2m 44s | Video has closed captioning.

The Russian social media disinformation campaign was particularly savvy in the lead-up to the 2016 election. But take a closer look and you might be surprised to learn that ads out of Russia only accounted for less than 1% of all political ads that year.