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But they claim it's Russia interfering in our elections to deflect from the real problem
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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Do you have a reference for a credible study? Since the youth who watches TikTok isn't that numerous and doesn't vote that much, how could that have such an influence?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections
Also how could Russia buy propaganda on Facebook without US approval? The US is doing regime changes all over the world. Why should they make such a Rooky mistake and hand over the presidency at home?
The wikipedia article has over 600 hundred references, including a section specifically on the disinformation campaign.
There is more, but I think the 600+ sources in the wikipedia article do a better job than I ever will.
The value of the Russian influence comes from viral stories.
Those 340 million shares are impressive, but that's one exposure while 1000 views for ads cost $10 so Russia gifted $4 million to Trump.
On the other hand, Clinton had $2 billion to spend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation
But which content was shared?
If they exposed 340 million Americans to police violence then that can't have been good for republicans.
To me it looks like an excuse. Clinton was in office. She must have had access to secret information that warned about the risk.
If Clinton knows that there was manipulation and she disbanded the defence and exposed her mails then that looks like a honey pot to me.
I do not understand your point. Russia was intent on sowing discord and chaos, which they did. They spread millions of lies and disinformation, and succeeded in making people distrust the election system. A decade later and you can see the situation we are now in.
And this is just the publicly known stuff.
The US pushed Jelzin's election which led to Putin with the intent to avoid a Communist victory which is keeping Russia stuck where it is now since then. What Russia did was at most par for the course. However I think the influence is hugely exagerated. The claim is that Putin managed to compensate a $2 billion budget
Trump had a budget of $500 million.
but
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=N00023864
Those $5 billion are the elephant in the room. The election wasn't won on the internet but by established media companies. Those 340 million shares aren't worth that much.
Voting machines, registration processes, weekday voting and gerrymandering - that all originated in the US. A Russian blogger who points that out is not to blame for the current mess.
Russia was involved but that involvement is used to distract from who else was involved even more.
They don't have as much influence as liberals like to believe they do, they just have a political party that is so inept in governing that they have to blame it on someone so they choose Russia. It's the exact same techniques the government used during the 1950s Red scare, they convince the public that Russians are everywhere
The curtain administration is accumulation of liberals selecting what they called a lesser evil for the last 50 years, which was actually incremental fascism.
It's liberals that never held their own party accountable, as their a party kept shifting further and further to the right, the voter mantra was gotta vote blue, no matter who. You basically told them that they can do anything that they want and you will keep coming back for more. And every small amount of evil that voters found acceptable allowed for a greater amount of evil the next time. So yeah, these wounds are self inflicted.