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#390 "Stupid People, Stupid Ideas, and Stupid Solutions" w/ Douglas Murray

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Russian Trolls on Twitter Had Little Influence on the 2016 Election

A piece in the Washington Post this past week said Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 20, on the 2016 vote. That's wrong. It had no influence. The sprawling Russian interference operation in 2016 involved multiple GRU units engaging in criminal sabotage with the aim of electing Donald Trump and allowing full Russian annexation of Crimea and the Donbass get retconned into a story about bots. And all these people are just getting this fake news, by the way, which I pointed out many of times, was appropriated by Donald Trump from Hillary Clinton.

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