How Much & How Soon We Forget

Eleven Months Ago
Settled: The Russian Troll Factory Significantly Interfered With the 2016 Election

Ve Luff Breitbartski and Fox News!

     Subject crushed. 
          Russians indicted. 
               Research done proving Trump was helped.
                  

Yes, Russian Trolls Helped Elect Trump

Social media lies have real-world consequences.
[Article here]
Excerpt: Respondents were asked to rate the accuracy of statements claiming that Hillary Clinton was suffering from a serious illness, that she’d approved weapons sales to the Islamic State as secretary of state, and that Donald Trump had been endorsed by Pope Francis. “Belief in these fake news stories (fake news items proven to be planted by Russian Trolls) is very strongly linked to defection from the Democratic ticket by 2012 Obama voters,” wrote the researchers, Richard Gunther, Paul A. Beck and Erik C. Nisbet. Even after controlling for variables like ideology, education, party identification and dislike of Clinton, they found that believing a fake news story made people who voted for President Barack Obama in 2012 significantly less likely to vote for Clinton in 2016.

Research!  Well designed, properly sampled, scientifically analyzed... the kind of stuff I lived by. You know, factual.

Now, along comes the Flighty Righty Fiction, that it was really Ukraine.
Ever hear of a "super lie?"  

Hmmm.  Those darn irrefutable facts about Russian trolls are just not wonderful for Russia, so could it be??...

BLAME IT ON UKRAINE, good friend Trump.
Signed,
Vlad






p.s. & BTW,  Russia is doing it in Africa now, perhaps the only place with more vulnerable voters than the U.S?






  


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