Originally Posted by
anatta
It's complicated. The OP builds the case that "Russian interference is sporadic and a repsnce to our meddling not a plot
by the Kremlin to bring down democracy and other shrill hype.. as to the IRA -again read the OP
the Internet Research Agency was originally created in 2013 to mess not with American voters but with Russia’s domestic opposition, among other subjects, by increasing Internet traffic to certain regime-friendly websites. Its modus operandi on the domestic side, with poorly paid “Internet operators” working under loose directives and leaving comments on various websites, suggests that the specific slogans and memes the IRA’s trolls later pushed into the American information space were generated by the group itself and not explicitly by the Kremlin.
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