This is something I thought about too. Especially considering communities like /r/The_Donald and 4Chan's /pol/ have been observed creating parody Twitter profiles and the like with Russia based geo-tags. I am nearly positive the image linked by OP is an example of just that. This is not to say that Russia did not purchase Facebook ads, just that a geo-tag is very weak evidence of anything and using images like the above to make accusations makes for a pretty weak argument.

You can manually set your twitter location to whatever you want for any tweet, and the account mentioned above was a parody/troll account.

The idea that this is proof of Russian meddling in the election is laughable.

Interesting I had not considered that either. Thanks for the information. After years of being a programmer I'm convinced that digital evidence is really hard to take seriously considering the inability of most of it being tamper proof.

Just wait until technology like this [0] becomes more common place, which I guess will be either the next US election, or the one after that. It's going to be a crazy world.

0: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe...

Fair enough, also 3D rendering of realistic looking 3D art could be worrisome as well. If it can be abused someone somewhere will try to find a way to abuse of it. I wish this were not the world we lived in.