Honestly, the appropriate response is to hope that the people most affected by tactics like this will say, "Gee, maybe I shouldn't believe everything I read."

Honestly, the appropriate response is to hope that the people most affected by tactics like this will say, "Gee, maybe I shouldn't believe everything I read." I don't think we can really stop outside propaganda. But it's depressing at how much Americans are affected by it. Many prominent Americans have re-posted material that is demonstrably traceable back to Russian troll factories. I don't believe that those are actually the source of our differences, though I do think they exaggerate them. The real problem is that we seem awfully willing to believe the worst in each other, utterly suspending any thought of verifying it. The Russians are pushing us to do what we're already doing to ourselves. Maybe if people see this and take a moment to think, things will get slightly better. But I doubt it.