And virtually all that research is wrong. It's full of stuff like "here's a Russian bot whoops no that's actually a Scottish car park attendant". Or "here's an

And virtually all that research is wrong. It's full of stuff like "here's a Russian bot whoops no that's actually a Scottish car park attendant". Or "here's an ML model that detects Russian bots oops it detected Biden as a bot". The quality of evidence for this idea (really, this conspiracy theory) is absurdly low. And it remains true that nobody was spreading this idea up until the moment it became clear that the supposed Russian sock puppets appeared to be supporting both sides in the election. I remember it quite clearly. The supposed Russian master plan changed overnight after that.