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If well documented manipulation of social media by foreign governments had a "minuscule" effect on the election, what are the "far more probable explanations" y
by somebehemoth 8y ago
If well documented manipulation of social media by foreign governments had a "minuscule" effect on the election, what are the "far more probable explanations" you speak of?
- malvosenior 8y agoThat people voted for the candidate they wanted to win based on their own analysis, thoughts and free will. If advertising can win elections, then Hillary would have won since she far outspent Trump on media. Let's not forget she had a much larger army of astro turfers (Correct The Record) pushing her message on the internet and it was all for moot. It turns out people aren't as easy to sway as advertisers would have you believe.
- cwkoss 8y agoRevelations of systemic DNC bias and their actions to intentionally harm a democratic candidate destroyed public faith in the DNC establishment. Hillary didn't take any non-screened questions from the press for a period of several months during the heat of the campaign. HRC campaign was overconfident in swing states and chose not to campaign there.
- somebehemoth 8y agoAll of what you write can be true without contradicting or minimizing the effectiveness of well documented foreign influence. These issues are not at all mutually exclusive. I was responding to the claim that foreign influence was "minuscule" in comparison to local issues. You cannot quantify the effect of foreign influence until all the facts are known.