Politics

Newly identified Twitter accounts were until recently still tweeting out politically divisive messages as midterm elections approach. Read the full story here.

An analysis of 221,641 tweets shows Russian trolls tried to incite chaos, fear and outrage about fake events before their election activity, as if they were testing to see how much they could get Americans to believe. Read the full story here.

Presidential candidates and super PACs have paid more than $50 million for various services to obscure corporate entities set up in the past year, many of which use postal-box addresses and file little or no information about their ownership. Read the full story here.