"When we did a power mapping of the landscape at the end of 2016 early 2017, what we found was that so much of what used to be dismissed as the fringes was now where power was being organized: 4chan; Daily Stormer comment sections; subreddits," Carusone said. "These would never have been considered worthy enough or important enough to monitor [before]. But we looked at it and they were — they were driving a lot of the misinformation and fake news of 2016. They were creating a lot of material that was making it onto Fox News or Donald Trump's Twitter feed."