The NFL protests during the national anthem became one of the biggest stories nationally this week, but apparently, Twitter accounts linked to Russia helped fuel the fire.
Daisuke Wakabayashi and Scott Shane of the New York Times broke down the recent news:
"Since last month, researchers at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan initiative of the German Marshall Fund, a public policy research group in Washington, have been publicly tracking 600 Twitter accounts—human users and suspected bots alike—they have linked to Russian influence operations. Those were the accounts pushing the opposing messages on the NFL and the national anthem.