CNN: GOP lawmaker: FBI has evidence Russian bots were fanning flames before Charlottesville violence
Republican Rep. Tom Garrett, who represents Charlottesville, Virginia, said Monday that FBI officials told him and other members of Congress that Russian actors were attempting to sow discord around the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville last year before the event took place.
This is a story that deserves much more attention than it’s receiving . Russians, via social media, were sowing discord, fanning the flames if you will, before Charlottesville last year.
