The influence campaign used social media to try and suppress Democratic voter turnout in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a report produced for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The major goal of the campaign was to support Donald Trump—first against his Republican rivals, then in the general election and now as president. The report says that the Black community “was targeted extensively.” The report’s authors said foreign interference continues to this day. (New York Times)

Talking point: The report also found that the campaign’s efforts on Instagram were comparable to—and in some cases, rivalled—its operations on Facebook. A Russian Instagram account with the handle @blackstagram amassed more than 300,000 followers at one point. In response to the report, the NAACP announced that it had returned a monetary donation it recently received from Facebook, and is calling for a digital boycott of Facebook and Instagram on December 18. Furthermore, Senators criticized Google’s data contribution to their report, saying, “Google’s data contribution was by far the most limited in context and least comprehensive of the three,” they said, referring to Google, Facebook and Twitter.