![]() From the unredacted portions, we can tell that it’s about Mueller’s findings on Russia’s efforts to sow discord around the election using social media.Īnother heavily redacted section is the one called “Russian Hacking and Dumping Operations,” which explains Mueller’s findings on Russia’s role in hacking top Democrats’ emails and releasing them to the public. ![]() Here, it’s pretty clear that the section titled “Russian ‘Active Measures’ Social Media Campaign” was among the most redacted. The black portion is how much each section was redacted. In the chart below, the full length of the bar represents how long each section is. (More about methodology at the bottom.) This analysis found that about 7 percent of the entire report was redacted - but some sections were withheld much more than others. We wrote a computer program to look at the millions of pixels on each page and find how many of them were black. ![]() One way to see which sections are blacked out most is by just looking at the pages.īut to get a little more insight, we tried to approximate how much each page was redacted by section. The most redacted sections were on Russia’s hacking and election interference But we can learn some things from where they’re placed - and how many there are. But as former White House lawyer Andy Wright told Vox’s Alex Ward, “A redaction is sort of a compromise between withholding a document entirely versus releasing the full document.” For what it’s worth, Attorney General William Barr said the White House did not play a part in the redaction process - and that instead, it was DOJ lawyers, Mueller’s team, and members of the intelligence community. In theory, the government has to release as much as it possibly can. The report from FBI special counsel Robert Mueller was released to the public Thursday - and, as expected, large chunks of his findings are redacted. ![]()
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