CLASS 19: PROJECT GOOD OLD USA

The FBI got is hands on Russian documents outlining an influence operation whose objective was to elect Trump

In Class 17, we looked at Operation Doppelgänger, an ongoing Russian influence operation that uses spoofed web sites designed to look like legitimate news outlets to trick people into thinking they are reading reliable information. In relation to that case, the FBI recently released a number of documents outlining how the Kremlin hired Russian PR agencies to build and execute influence operations on its behalf. Today, we’ll look closer at one of those campaigns: Project Good Old USA.

The document header of a Kremlin-hired PR agency’s plan to elect Trump