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In reply to the discussion: Was your vote in the 2016 primary or GE influenced by Russian meddling? [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)to the answer you want. Thats the whole point. If you know people are attempting to manipulate you it wont work.
An intelligence driven campaign like this would have begun by attempting to amplify and exploit existing questions, concerns or prejudices that groups of people already had against Hillary. It would then continue to exploit and amplify them until the distrust of her was at an extremely high level, then it might try to add some additional concerns and questions about her that erstwhile would have seemed ridiculous, like that she ran a pedophile ring out of a pizza store, or that she was so sick she was about to die, or that her foundation was corrupt or that she was in bed with Wall Street just because she gave paid speeches to them.
There is an immense amount of.nonsense that many anti Hillary people on the progressive left bought into that was undoubtedly a product of the Russian meddling efforts.