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When the Justice Department released a heavily-redacted version of the Mueller Report<\/a> Thursday, the conversation quickly devolved into partisan bickering.<\/p> Only time will tell what the report means for the Trump administration. But what’s immediately clear is that concepts that were once restricted to fictional cyberpunk dystopias — from government hackers to botnet propaganda networks — are now mainstream enough to influence international politics.<\/p> The readable text of the report details how Russia used social media, hackers, and other sophisticated techniques to try and sway the 2016 U.S. Presidential election in favor of Trump — efforts that reached millions of Americans and recruited others to actively spread their propaganda before and after the election.<\/p> Russians working for an organization called the Internet Research Agency created accounts on Twitter and Facebook, through which they reached millions — including many members of the Trump Administration, Trump’s sons, and Trump himself — while sharing pro-Trump and anti-Clinton messages, memes, and images.<\/p> Meanwhile, other Russian operatives were taking a more direct approach — by hacking into Democratic Party servers, releasing sensitive information though sock puppet personas like “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer” and giving stolen data to WikiLeaks. Just to make the whole thing a little more “Shadowrun,” they funded the operation by mining Bitcoin.<\/p> In the long view, the report might be less memorable for its specific claims than as a blueprint for the future of information warfare — and the strange ways technology can be used to manipulate and control populations.<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election<\/a> [CNN<\/em>]<\/p> More on Mueller: <\/strong>Everything You Need to Know From Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional Testimony: Day 1<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post The Mueller Report Confirms We’re Living in a Cyberpunk Dystopia<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Here is the original post: Harm to Ongoing Matter When the Justice Department\u00a0released a heavily-redacted version of the Mueller Report Thursday,\u00a0the conversation quickly devolved into partisan bickering. Continue reading Black Boxes<\/h2>
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