In 2018, Lisa Kaplan assembled a small team inside the re-election campaign for Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine. Wary of how Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, it set out to find and respond to political disinformation online.
The team noticed some false statements shared by voters, and traced the language back to Facebook pages with names like “Boycott The NFL 2018.”
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