SCOOP: A new website aimed at sowing doubt on today's midterms traces directly back to a company cited by Mueller as part of Russia's interference operations. thinkprogress.org/usaira-russian… 
The site is bizarre, bare-bones—and comes with this wacky, maniacal screed: thinkprogress.org/usaira-russian…
The company that registered the site, which went up over the weekend? Azimut LLC, one of the LLCs cited in Mueller's indictment. thinkprogress.org/usaira-russian…
(Twitter's already suspended the related Twitter account, which had this adorable guy as its avatar.)
This new page, claiming to be the Internet Research Agency, follows an equally bizarre video last week of an IRA employee claiming he was trying to escape Russia, and that he had documents on Russia's 2018 interference operations: thinkprogress.org/russian-social…
So, no, Russia's not sitting out social media interference efforts around the 2018 elections—but the efforts thus far are a mix of the weird and the pathetic. thinkprogress.org/usaira-russian…
One other thing: There’s a countdown to Thursday morning currently on this site. No idea why.
This new troll site created by one of the companies in Mueller's indictment has just tossed up its "choices" for tonight's election. (But only in the Senate; apparently they weren't brave enough to do the House.) thinkprogress.org/usaira-russian…
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‘If the pages were run by the IRA, it would represent its most brazen effort since the 2016 presidential election, and a thumb in the eye of American authorities’
‘It’s still not entirely clear if the website is intended as self-parody’ thedailybeast.com/russian-troll-…
‘If it is bluster, was the IRA ineffective in this election because it was stymied, or because it didn't try? Is this website and network even really the work of the IRA?’ cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/08… cnn.com/2018/11/08/tec…
