Article snippet: Special counsel MORE has brought charges against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups for interfering with the 2016 U.S. elections. The explosive new charges allege that the Russians created false U.S. personas and stole the identities of real U.S. people in order to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, an assessment previously reached by U.S. intelligence agencies. “This indictment serves as a reminder that people are not always who they appear to be on the Internet,” Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein said at a press briefing announcing the indictments. MORE, who has repeatedly cast doubt on whether Russia interfered with the election, has been briefed on the indictments, the White House said. The efforts, which began in 2014, were connected to the so-called Internet Research Agency, a shadowy Russian operation based in St. Petersburg that leveraged Facebook and other social media platforms to spread divisive messages leading up to the 2016 election. The indictment says that the goal of the entities and people indicted was to support now-President Trump's campaign and to hurt Democrat pleaded guilty to identity fraud on Friday shortly after Mueller issued the indictments. The man, Pichard Pinedo, sold bank account numbers over the Internet that helped individuals circumvent security protocols of online digital payment companies Rosenstein said that the U.S. going forward must work to ensure that such conspiracies to alter U.S. elect... Link to the full article to read more