Rick Gates Sought Online Manipulation Plans From Israeli Intelligence Firm for Trump Campaign
►https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/politics/rick-gates-psy-group-trump.html
A top Trump campaign official requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation and to gather intelligence to help defeat Republican primary race opponents and Hillary Clinton, according to interviews and copies of the proposals. The Trump campaign’s interest in the work began as Russians were escalating their effort to aid Donald J. Trump. Though the Israeli company’s pitches were narrower than Moscow’s interference (...)
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