Oddly, nobody from the WMA or the Resisters showed up
NEW YORK ― On a Saturday evening in the fall of 2017, local activist Amy Bettys schlepped to Union Square in Manhattan, alongside members of the women’s reproductive rights group she works with, to protest a proposed federal restriction on abortion.
Facebook admitted in July that it had discovered a sophisticated and coordinated disinformation campaign on the platform, with “inauthentic administrators” working to divide Americans in the lead-up to the midterm elections, according to a Washington Post report at the time.
Suddenly, Russian interference in American affairs was no longer a bogeyman or a plot point on an over-the-top spy thriller. Activists attending very real political events began to realize that some of the rallies they were invited to ― even those on the local level ― had been organized in bad faith by Russian actors.
Meanwhile, a handful of the Resisters’ fake administrators were reaching out to legitimate activists to co-host the event, HuffPost reported. By that time on Facebook, about 2,600 people said they were interested in the event and hundreds had vowed to attend, according to The Washington Post. But when neither the WMA nor the Resisters showed up to their own event, WHARR members grew suspicious. In an email exchange obtained by HuffPost, WHARR co-chair Karen Wang asked WMA founder Katherine Siemionko what happened, to which Siemionko responded:
The conversation fizzled out at that point, and WHARR members said they chalked the whole thing up to poor planning ― that is, until July, when the Resisters were outed by news organizations as a devious creation of the IRA. Then in August, a Washington Post report revealed that “a woman named Mary” from the Resisters had reached out to another activist, Brendan Orsinger, to help promote various events.
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