Russian internet trolls have been actively working to fuel the controversy over NFL players kneeling or sitting during the national anthem in a bid to stir up divisions in the United States, a Republican Senator said Wednesday.
Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma said at a hearing with the heads of the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center that paid social media users, or “trolls,” were hashtagging “take a knee” and “boycott the NFL” to amplify the issue.
“They were taking both sides of the argument this past weekend, and pushing them out from their troll farms as much as they could to try to just raise the noise level in America and to make a big issue seem like an even bigger issue,” Lankford said. – READ MORE
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