TIME Trolls Trump With Awesome Cover

‘Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America’

TIME magazine has released its latest cover, an illustration of the White House turning into an iconic Russian building, Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow’s Red Square. Executive editor Matt Vella on Twitter notes it’s the first time in a decade no cover story title appears. Clearly, there was none needed, thanks to the amazing cover art by BrobelDesign.

TIME also released an animated version:

And filmmaker Matthew A Cherry added some amusing audio:

The cover story is “Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America,” by Massimo Calabresi.

“For many Americans, Russian hacking remains a story about the 2016 election,” Calabresi writes. “But there is another story taking shape. Marrying a hundred years of expertise in influence operations to the new world of social media, Russia may finally have gained the ability it long sought but never fully achieved in the Cold War: to alter the course of events in the U.S. by manipulating public opinion.”

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