"Brazen forgeries" designed to fan sectarian violence in Northern Ireland were sown online by a "Russian operation", a US think tank has said.
One involved a fake tweet by the UK defence minister about the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), a militant group.
Another one was a false email by a Northern Irish party leader on Brexit.
And a third one said the RIRA had invited "Muslim extremists" to join them to "fight on the [sic] Irish soil".
The inflammatory content wa...
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