Immigration, Chemical Attacks Among False Content Pushed By Fake Accounts Online

Now we'd like to introduce a new segment on this program. We're going to call it Troll Watch. Since the 2016 presidential campaign, we've seen how social media can be used to amplify a fringe cause, hype up tensions over divisions that do exist or promulgate fake news, sometimes all at the same time. And it's not hard to find examples of this. With a simple Google search, you can find stories about how Russian trolls stoked skepticism about childhood vaccines, distracted from the Paul Manafort conviction and even organized a Black Lives Matter protest.