Disinformation campaign targeting Roy Moore’s Senate bid may (The Truth Be With You)

by ZeekHyle, Thursday, December 27, 2018, 23:51 (750 days ago)

Disinformation campaign targeting Roy Moore’s Senate bid may have violated law, Alabama AG says

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Thursday that his office is exploring whether disinformation tactics deployed against Republican Roy Moore during last year's special election violated state campaign laws and said he was worried that the operation could have affected the closely fought Senate race.
"The information is concerning," Marshall, a Republican, said in a phone interview. "The impact it had on the election is something that's significant for us to explore, and we'll go from there."
Moore lost the election to his Democratic rival, Sen. Doug Jones.
Marshall, who said he learned of the disinformation campaign called Project Birmingham through news reports over the past two weeks, stopped short of announcing a formal investigation but said his office was beginning to gather information about the effort.

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