> They ran about half of the largest US identity focused Facebook groups (Christian/Black/etc) during the 2020 US election.

Can you provide any citation for this and the approximate date when this was revealed? I’ve been hearing about this since 2015 and the last report I looked at was entirely unconvincing.

> it's also about stoking ethnic and religious tension to try to weaken the US and destroy its ability to be a unified cohesive country.

That is likely one of Russia’s goals; it is not likely that the Russians were the origin of these political cleavages. This was the problem with the entire Russian influence narrative; it was a post-hoc rationalization for why exceptionally bad ideas like diversity and multiculturalism were rejected by a subset of the population. In essence: “If they hadn’t been exposed to these Facebook posts, they never would have had these illiberal ideas put into their heads.”

It was also impossible to take seriously because most of the elected officials promoting it were receiving campaign contributions from AIPAC.

Agitprop cannot create divisions whole cloth, they can only amplify and inflame extant divisions.