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Re:The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election by throwaway5752 on Sunday September 10, 2017 @09:13PM (#15215181)
Don't you think it would be better to both 1) get better candidates 2) stop foreign states from successfully interfering in our elections via propaganda and hacking private systems?

edit - disappointed this got flagged, it's only political because certain parts of the users turn it into flamewars. Russia intelligence was attributed as the hackers behind the DNC intrusion by top firms, and is accused of systematically coordinated the timing of damaging info with Wikipedia, the Trump campaign, and networks of social bots to successfully flip the election. Then Trump damaged NATO alliances and softened his part's platform on Ukraine/Crimea, among other things. Regrettable that we can't have a mature conversation about this critical and topical subject.

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Re:The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election by gedy on Sunday September 10, 2017 @09:17PM (#15215195)
It feels like all news and ads are propaganda around elections. I guess I'd feel worse if the info was faked, and/or people would express the same outrage had it not been about "their" candidate.
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Re:The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election by pmurT on Sunday September 10, 2017 @10:42PM (#15215536)
Do you not recall the number of foreign Hilary supporters pushing on social media and chat rooms?
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Re:The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election by throwaway5752 on Sunday September 10, 2017 @11:06PM (#15215603)
I don't, post some citations. How's that related to anything I wrote, though?
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