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LONDON – Vladimir Putin he would personally approve a covert operation to support Donald Trump in the 2016 American presidential campaign. This was revealed by a top secret document on a meeting in the Kremlin in January of that year, received by the Guardian through a tip. Judging Trump “mentally unstable,” the Russian president and his advisers believed that his election to the White House would weaken the United States and strengthen Russia’s position.
Moscow has long been accused of having tried to influence the 2016 US campaign through the fraudulent and unscrupulous use of big data, creating fake profiles, circulating fake news on social media, using all the clandestine propaganda means available to cyberwarfare. …
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