Opinion | How the Russians pretended to be Texans — and Texans believed them
"Heart of Texas" grew into the most popular Texas secession page on Facebook. It was run by the Russians. In early 2016, while researching some of the most popular U.S. secession groups online, I stumbled across one of the Russian-controlled Facebook accounts that were then pulling in Americans by the thousands. At the time, I was writing on Russia’s relationship with American secessionists from Texas, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. These were people who had hitched flights to Moscow to swap tactics...
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