As Facebook is turning over information on Russian-bought ads to Congress, it's becoming clear that the disinformation campaign was much more sophisticated than just spreading fake stories about the Clintons killing an FBI agent. Predictably, the ads drove racist and anti-immigrant talking points, as the Washington Post reports:

The divisive themes seized on by Russian operatives were similar to those that Trump and his supporters pushed on social ­media and on right-wing websites during the campaign. U.S. investigators are now trying to figure out whether Russian operators and members of Trump’s team coordinated in any way. Critics say Trump, as president, has further inflamed racial and religious divisions, citing his controversial statements after violent clashes in Charlottesville and limits imposed on Muslim immigration.

But there's an extra level to this. The Post reported that the massive collection of ads also includes pro-Black Lives Matter ads. In fact, according to a new CNN report, those ads showed up mainly in Baltimore and Ferguson. So the trolls weren't just targeting right-wing Facebook users--they were also targeting left-wing voters to demoralize them.

And this is only looking at Facebook through an advertising-focused lens. In maybe the most distressing update on this whole mess, The Daily Beast has found that a fake account impersonated the social media for a real U.S.-based Muslim rights group, United Muslims of America. And those imposter accounts, which have been linked back to Russian operatives, show a complex operation.

The account was also subtler than several of the others The Daily Beast and other news outlets have now identified as Russian-linked Facebook accounts. Much of the content on the account was apolitical, evincing positive portrayals of Islam and Muslims and debunking some of the very Islamophobic myths Russia was simultaneously deploying through other accounts. That approach might have helped the account win its 268,000 Facebook followers. But at strategic moments, those followers were treated to a sharp detour into fake news.

Those sharp detours included a lot of memes claiming that the U.S., and John McCain specifically, created and funded ISIS, and that the U.S. is secretly coordinating with ISIS to attack Syrian president Bashar al-Asad's forces. The page even tried to organize a pro-Hillary Clinton rally in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting and several more events as recently as June of this year. Despite some check-ins, there's no evidence yet that anyone actually attended theses real-world events, but at a glance any casual Facebook scroller would assume this was the real page of an active organization.

It's hard to tell how (or even if) this was meant to sway the 2016 presidential election. And maybe it wasn't. Maybe it was just a way to get pro-Assad ideas in front of more than 200,000 Americans. In any event, the scope of Russian disinformation on Facebook is staggering, and the revelations are only just starting.

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