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Every country on the planet tries to influence US elections to some degree or another. Why focus on Russia and not, say, Israel or China? Clinton didn't lose
by gozur88 9y ago
Every country on the planet tries to influence US elections to some degree or another. Why focus on Russia and not, say, Israel or China?
Clinton didn't lose because of Russia. She lost because she was a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign.
- amazingman 9y ago> Every country on the planet tries to influence elections to some degree or another. Why focus on Russia and not, say, Israel or China? This is intellectually lazy. There’s a difference between normal, ethical, legal influence and malicious psychological warfare.
- asnfaiosnfsa 9y agoPlease elaborate. I bet you'll find the line is very difficult to enunciate and still believe in First Amendment type free speech.
- bsder 9y agoThis is disingenuous. Much like computers amplified the issues with gerrymandering, computers are amplifying the effects of these kinds of efforts. For example, applying machine learning to figure out how to "trigger" people is new. At this point, the right wing in the US has been under a sustained information warfare onslaught for years in order to increase divisiveness. The left wing is now becoming a similar target. The fact that the source is Murdoch, for profit, or Putin, for destabilization, or the US government, for control, is now irrelevant. The issue is how to counteract this. Period.