U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering with Election

Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by FLUX-YOU on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:20PM (#16395101)

While Russians had a part, Trump was not completely propped up by Russian propaganda support. It's not unreasonable that many Trump voters had no or little contact with fake profiles run by Russians, and were not significantly influenced by it.

But we can't really know that without tracking down all of their activity.

I abhor Trump, but he had plenty of organic and authentic support here in America. I don't think we'll ever find a smoking gun that says "Trump wouldn't have been president or won the primary if it weren't for this one Russian effort" (but stranger things have happened).

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Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by pdx on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:27PM (#16395167)

It seems that the goal was to promote discontent in general. There were anti-Trump activities as well, such as the post-election NYC protest set up on Facebook.

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Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by FLUX-YOU on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:36PM (#16395277)

They switched to that after they won, but before the election, they only supported Trump and discredited Hillary it seems.

It would be weird if they had supported Hillary in any significant way before the election.

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Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by IntronExon on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:37PM (#16395298)

As close as modern elections have been in the US, you don’t need to prop, just nudge.

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Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by marshray on Friday February 16, 2018 @05:49PM (#16397245)

The number of voters needed to flip this election would fit into a stadium.

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