If CNN’s looking to harass people who might’ve been complicit – however unwittingly – in Russian election meddling, maybe they should send Drew Griffin over the Joy Ann Reid’s house with a camera crew.
NBC published a database last week of some 200,000 tweets that Twitter had linked to “malicious activity” from Russia-linked accounts during the 2016 presidential campaign – and it turns out the MSNBC host was the single news personality most often re-tweeted by Russian internet trolls during the campaign.
Attorney Dan Abram’s Law&Crime crunched the numbers and found Reid had been “retweeted” a whopping 267 times by Russian trolls – far more than the Russians’ second-favorite pundit, Sean Hannity.
Law&Crime explained:
According to an analysis of the raw data by Law&Crime, Joy-Ann Reid–recently and glowingly profiled as a heroine of the #Resistance by the New York Times–received some 267 total retweets by the private sector Russian troll brigade.
The next closest pundit favored by the Russian trolls was Sean Hannity–who received only a handful of their retweets during the 2016 election.
Ironically, Reid has been one of Trump’s most outspoken critics and a hardcore trasher of Russian interference in the election, often accusing Trump – with no proof – of colluding with Russia during the 2016 presidential race.
All while apparently enjoying her very own Kremlin-based media boost, unknowingly or not.