Russia has been accused of facilitating the spread of "fake news" on social media sites in an effort to swing the US election in Trump's favor.

Experts from two separate groups have alleged that Moscow sponsored Facebook and Twitter posts that promoted an anti-Hillary propaganda.

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According to one of the experts, the social media campaign was aimed at chipping away American voters' faith in democracy.

The latest developments come after previous claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin, a confessed Trump supporter, authorized the Democratic National Committee hack, which exposed sensitive emails from Clinton's trusted confidantes.

Writing in a blog post entitled "Trolling for Trump: How Russia is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy," Andrew Weisburd, Clitt Watts, and JM Berger explained how they began tracking social media accounts in 2014.

The trio said they noticed that 'organised trolls' were targeting posts that criticized the Russian-backed Syrian government.

The trolls worked with what the trio dubbed as the 'honeypot accounts', which are faked profiles of young and extremely attractive women.

The fake women would then show eagerness to become involved in political debates with American users. One of the fake stories that was peddled by the accounts was the one that questioned her health after she fell ill during a 9/11 memorial event.

It later turned out that Hilary Clinton was suffering from pneumonia, but not before some media outlets packed up on the claims that she was suffering from Parkinson's disease or Syphilis. The disturbing claims were then spread on Facebook and Twitter.

"Today, that network is still hard at work, running at peak capacity in an effort to destroy America's confidence in their system of government," the experts blogged.

They say that they have monitored more than 7,000 social media accounts over the last 30 months and have occasionally interacted with them.

According to the blog post, another untrue story was the one where it was claimed that anti-Trump protesters were allegedly paid to appear at political rallies.

Another group PropOrNot has made similar accusations against the Kremlin.

"It was like Russia was running a super PAC for Trump's, and it worked," one of the group's members said on condition of anonymity.

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