Reports

How to Sow Discord Using Google and $100 (or 6,800 rubles)

On September 4, 2018, CfA released a report documenting how CfA bought politically divisive ads on Google using Russian rubles and a Russian IP address.  CfA posed as the infamous Russian troll farm, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), and bought ads using similar language and the same images that the IRA deployed during its 2016 influence campaign.  The ads ran on major U.S. media websites and their YouTube channels.

Click here to read the report on the Google Transparency Project website.