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absolutely, but I guess I'm seeing way too much attribution going towards the Russians. If some twitter account with an anime avatar tweets some blatantly incen
by beaconstudios 8y ago
absolutely, but I guess I'm seeing way too much attribution going towards the Russians. If some twitter account with an anime avatar tweets some blatantly incendiary stuff it's "Russian troll accounts" now. It's a bit OTT even for the scope and scale of the Russian interference, which was grand.
- meowface 8y agoYes, and that was partly the point all along: to spread FUD about people being Russian agents, events being Russia-manipulated, and ideas being Russia-propagated. Russian intelligence has surely succeeded on that front. The rational people out there aren't throwing around any such accusations, though. Instead, they rely on the documented instances of proven Russian trolls, as uncovered by law enforcement, the intelligence community, and Facebook and Twitter's security teams. Accusing an account of being on the Kremlin's dime is pretty absurd without forensic evidence. Very obviously, the vast majority of pro-Trump accounts out there are either organic, or not organic but operated by Trump-supporting US nationals.