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To me the DNC leak stood out as more damaging than Facebook ads / twitter bots. That being said, if anyone has an unbiased academic paper that looked in-depth

• downandout 6y ago
  While the leak was illegal, in the case of elections, personally I am all for anything that brings voters a better understanding of the candidates. Misinformation is untrue, and people can generally see right through it; email leaks are true. Given the polarization at the time, I don’t think that the email leaks had an impact on the outcome, but voters did become more informed, and that likely swayed some votes. Educated voters are a good thing in my opinion.