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The IRA's Facebook Groups - Black Divest, Don't Shoot Us

Most of the IRA's groups were pretty hardline conservative pro-Trump, but they actually kind of spun the gamut. Their Facebook groups had names like being patriotic, stop all immigrant, secured borders and tea party news. There was an LB LGBT United group and then like religious groups like United Muslims of America. All were actually IRA Facebook groups. Black Divest was pretty big. They got sizable numbers of people and they were pushing the anti-Hillary, like Hillary Clinton's racist line to try to get Black voters to stop supporting her.

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