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Originally Posted by mikemhg
-Russian bots undermining democracy through Facebook, and other online social media
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I think a lot of people fail to make the connection of how this actually went down.
Russia didn't directly affect the elections by having guys named Vlad and Aleksei drop bags of fraudulent votes, etc. - instead, as mentioned, they littered the internet with unsubstantiated claims, stoked the ignorance of people with memes (their primary source of 'information', and just generally created division. I mean primarily they went after low-education rednecks, and that seems to have worked in 2016..