While this information is still available research "Russian influence on political elections" BEFORE the United States Presidential election of 2016.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/09/russia-engineered-election-hacks-europe/96216556/
FAKE NEWS has become a strategic weapon in the fight for the hearts and minds of the people. Social media is the delivery vehicle. In a military journal, Russian General Valery Gerasimov wrote of using covert and propaganda tactics to turn a “perfectly thriving state” into a victim of “foreign intervention” causing it to “sink into a web of chaos.”
While guarding our hardware on cyberspace something else was attacked.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/how-russia-wins-an-election-214524
Today the attack continues.
In the U.S., Russia’s blending of semi-overt and covert social media accounts use common hashtags and phrases to create what appear to be conservative supporters or alt-right cheerleaders. These social media personas, whose bios are littered with words like “country,” “Christian,” “America” and “military,” then push pro-conservative hashtags loaded with skewed and fake news at American audiences, helping generate organic right wing support and distrust of the U.S. government. These accounts tweet hashtags and keywords in unison at specified time intervals and carry odd follower relationships fitting inorganic, mathematical patterns.
https://warontherocks.com/2016/11/trolling-for-trump-how-russia-is-trying-to-destroy-our-democracy/
As early as August 2015, Russian English-language outlets and their social media allies were promoting Trump—at a time when the idea that he could actually win seemed a distant fantasy. And they kept going throughout the Republican primary, surging at key times. Put differently, Russia didn’t just intervene in the general election against Hillary Clinton—it helped him defeat his anti-Moscow GOP rivals, too. The United Kingdom observed a similar campaign. Dating back to the earliest parts of 2015, Russian media outlets incited fear of immigration and promoted Brexit advocate Nigel Farage’s accusations of American manipulation to foster popular support for the British to leave the EU.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-brexit-referendum/
Some Russian campaigns didn't work. Stories predicting doom from climate change or nuclear war have gained little to no traction in the U.S. Liberal supporters didn’t gravitate to Russian propaganda in substantial numbers, either. But when Russia’s digital propagandists find a message that resonates among a disgruntled American audience, they refocus their efforts to exploit where they find success—predominantly among conservative audiences seeking damaging information against liberals.
Do your own search. Our Intelligence community missed this attack and is now trying to make up for the damage done to our democracy. Do it soon. This information may vanish.