A lot of those memes came from Russia. There's a large amount of evidence that Brexit and Trump were fueled by Russian disinformation campaigns. Quite a bit of

A lot of those memes came from Russia. There's a large amount of evidence that Brexit and Trump were fueled by Russian disinformation campaigns. Quite a bit of the polarization we've seen in the US has also be fueled by them. The sad thing is that Russia didn't even need to make anything up to make this happen. They poured fuel on our existing divisions, until we couldn't even talk to each other, then poured resources into social media to prop up one candidate while attacking the other. Our hatred made us too blind to see it happening.