Here are some of the questionable tweets that Twitter says were linked to the Russian government during the 2016 US election
The following tweet, made two days before the 2016 US presidential election, appears to impersonate the Tennessee Republican Party's official Twitter account: @TNGOP.
Another tweet from the IRA appeared to comment on the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
The image of former President Bill Clinton and his daughter Chelsea Clinton shown here is from the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016.
This account, whose tweets could still be found in online archives, references the conservative rallying cry that followed comments Hillary Clinton made about some of Donald Trump's supporters.
Clinton famously riled up Republicans when she characterized half of Trump's supporters as "a basket of deplorables."
According to Clinton, who made that remark at a campaign event in September 2016, those "deplorables" consisted of people who she called "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic."
Two days after the election, this tweet targeted billionaire hedge-fund manager George Soros, a popular target for conservative political operatives.
Other tweets from the IRA-associated accounts focused on issues that tended to polarize the political climate, such as this tweet on the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, a Black American who was fatally shot by a police officer.
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