167
submitted 6 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/world@lemmy.world
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] elvith@feddit.de 55 points 6 months ago

Everyone besides Russia: "You should watch out, Russia is about to meddle with your elections."

US: "Pfft, yeah, riight..."

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh they knew

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/21/587614043/fact-check-why-didnt-obama-stop-russia-s-election-interference-in-2016

But Republicans didn't want to stop it, and Obama was worried if he did anything without Republican support it would look like he was tilting the scales in favor of Clinton. Which makes zero sense to me but hey that's just what Obama thought.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The US went hard against Russian hackers just before the 2020 elections. They learned the lesson from 2016.

[-] notabot@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Hackers aren't the only way to meddle in an election, just the easiest to categorize and deal with.

[-] FrostyTrichs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Hackers aren't the only way to meddle in an election, just the easiest to categorize and deal with.

Convenient strawmen anyway.

this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
167 points (97.2% liked)

World News

38659 readers
2232 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS