Social media posts are wrongly claiming that the FBI failed to review evidence in the hack of the DNC’s computer network before concluding that Russia was responsible for the breach.
The claims circulated widely on Twitter and Facebook after the White House released a rough transcript of a July phone call President Donald Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which he asked Zelenskiy to investigate CrowdStrike.
CrowdStrike is the private U.S.-cybersecurity firm that first helped the DNC identify the malware on its system in 2016 and later traced it back to Russia. The company has identified hacks for major clients that also include the National Republican Congressional Committee and U.S. government.
