On top of that, we're not just talking about pro-Trump, anti-Clinton ads. Some of the Russian ads were clearly designed to incite racism[1,2]. There was an an

On top of that, we're not just talking about pro-Trump, anti-Clinton ads. Some of the Russian ads were clearly designed to incite racism[1,2]. There was an anti-Islam rally in Houston[3], organized by a Facebook group called "Heart of Texas", which was later revealed to be a fake account operating out of Russia. This isn't just an abstract game of geopolitics, they're literally trying to incite racial violence. 1: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/353480-report-russian-bought-facebook-ad-showed-a-black-woman-dry-firing-a-rifle http://thehill.com/policy/technology/353480-report-russian-b... 2: https://www.recode.net/2017/10/7/16439936/congressional-black-caucus-lawmakers-facebook-twitter-racism-black-lives-matter-russia-2016-election https://www.recode.net/2017/10/7/16439936/congressional-blac... 3: https://thinkprogress.org/armed-white-supremacist-protest-organized-by-russians-d730f83ca275/ https://thinkprogress.org/armed-white-supremacist-protest-or...