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If you’re calling that article “utter nonsense” than I would completely agree! That’s exactly the BS that was peddled back in the day that people like the NYT
by zaroth 3y ago
If you’re calling that article “utter nonsense” than I would completely agree!
That’s exactly the BS that was peddled back in the day that people like the NYT happily took home Pulitzers for, but where it turned out they spun it nearly out of whole cloth.
Actual research [1a] into the effect of such a meager ad buy showed not only were staunchly Republican voters the ones who predominantly saw the ads, but unsurprisingly it had no effect on their voting.
Looking back, it’s fair to say that on the order of 0-100 votes may have been changed by this “meddling”, for which the nation was subjected to years of breathless left-wing coverage.
It was, in short, a sham story and it’s well past time to be still be carrying water for such thoroughly debunked propaganda.
[1] - https://www.scribd.com/document/618991728/Nature-Article-on-Effects-of-Russian-Messaging-in-2016#from_embed https://www.scribd.com/document/618991728/Nature-Article-on-...