These social media posts belong to an accused Russian agent. She’s Maria Butina. The U.S. charged her with conspiring to act as a foreign agent. She pleaded guilty, and agreed to cooperate with investigators as part of her plea deal. Butina admitted to opening up unofficial lines of communication with influential Americans, and warming them up to the idea of Russia as a friend. But she’s no shadowy foreign agent. She was all over social media: at least 11,000 tweets, 100 YouTube videos, 4,700 Facebook friends, LinkedIn, a blog, etc. Let’s take a closer look into these accounts to find out who she is and how she might have been trying to wield influence. This is Butina during a photo shoot for GQ Russia in 2014. She was a well-known gun rights advocate in Russia. And her early social feeds followed her activism. By 2015, she started posting from the United States. These are from a National Rifle Association meeting in Nashville. They were posted on one of her Russian social media pages. U.S. court records show that infiltrating the N.R.A. was one way Russia tried to influence Republican politics. And Butina fit right in. Here she is networking with top N.R.A. officials. Then there is the Republican Party. There’s a few ways she gets inside: at a teenage Republican summer camp in South Dakota; here she is with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; in 2015, she asked a question of then candidate Donald Trump. “I am visiting from Russia.” “Ah, Putin. Good friend of Obama, Putin. He likes Obama a lot. Go ahead.” “My question will be about foreign politics.” At a prayer breakfast in 2017, she posed with her alleged handler, an influential Russian official now under U.S. sanction. And right here, is where President Trump spoke that same morning. All the while, Butina maintained the image of an active twentysomething. She studied international relations at American University. She exercised and took flying lessons. But now her social feeds are quiet. She’s been sentenced to 18 months in prison. And then, deportation.