Q: What about Russian trolls, and Social Media?

A: There's nothing there. While FakeNews (CNN, etc) will sensationalize this to no end, there's no there, there.

A: There's nothing there. While FakeNews (CNN, etc) will sensationalize this to no end, there's no there, there. There was no huge spend, there was no change in votes, there was no Russian troll army. There was a few hundred thousand in ads, in a election that spent many billions on ads. If they were that persuasive with that much less effort/money, they deserve it.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2018-07-31

Here's the basics:

there was no huge spend, the amount contributed was infentesimal and had no impact on the election (numbers like $50K over multiple years, most supporting Bernie, BLM, etc, in an election where ≈$1B was spent).
Sensationalizing how many people "saw" an ad or a post means nothing. How many things might you have scrolled by and never paid attention to, or only linked to in order to mock?
there's no big Russian troll army -- the Wikileaks stuff showed the Democrats have a larger army of paid trolls, not to mention unpaid ones, being SJW's and attacking anyone with which they disagree
Just because someone is Russian, doesn't mean they're operatives of Putin, any more than George Soros and Koch Brothers represent Donald Trump.

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