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Now read the indictment.

It describes the exact same Russian ads. Indeed, the ads were declassified in part so they could be shown to the grand jury as evidence of discord down. In the ads you can see them posing as made-up US organizations such as South United, Army of Jesus and Blacktivist.

You make the IRA out to be some yuge boogeyman, when all they did was buy some social media ads, a little identity theft, and immigration violations.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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Now read the indictment.

It describes the exact same Russian ads. Indeed, the ads were declassified in part so they could be shown to the grand jury as evidence of discord down.

It's not only ads. There is human trolls behind the effort. Both foreign and domestic, and an actual physical presence.

I meant "discord sown."

They did maintain social media pages for their organization pages, populated them with posts from imaginary community members, etc. Had fake social media personas post among real social media accounts to draw people in to the community page, spread message and slide threads. Standard fake internet activism with actors from Central Casting (and Russia isn't the only entity to do this). Various associated impersonation/financial crimes. Etc. Basically an (even more) illegal alien version of MediaMatters or ShareBlue, with a smaller budget.

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It is also important to note that what is described is only a sampling of the efforts involved.

In the sense that we have no other samples to work with, yes, it is. In the sense that we can prove there's interference significantly different from this, or significantly more than this, no, we can't. This is it. This is what Mueller has proven. It's simply not bogeyman shit.

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The IRA is a huge bogyman, because it is controlled by the Kremlin.

The Kremlin isn't a huge bogeyman. Large (but not XL) at best. Putin desperately wishes he was half as strong as you give him credit for.

China? Now there's a huge bogeyman.

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BTW, if you haven't already, make sure to check out reactions, comments and shares on the Russian ads in the NYT link. That's the extent of their reach. Not very impressive, and that's assuming none of it was from their own fake accounts.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

In the sense that we have no other samples to work with, yes, it is. In the sense that we can prove there's interference significantly different from this, or significantly more than this, no, we can't. This is it. This is what Mueller has proven. It's simply not bogeyman shit.

Conspiracy theorists always allege that there is bigly evidence out there that we don't know about. There's no other way for them to keep believing in their conspiracy theory. You can see that pattern with TDS_Reporter throughout the thread.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

BTW, if you haven't already, make sure to check out reactions, comments and shares on the Russian ads in the NYT link. That's the extent of their reach. Not very impressive, and that's assuming none of it was from their own fake accounts.

I don't think you understand how seeding works. The far right takes the propaganda provided by Kremlin trolls and expands upon it. Look at what Alex Jones and Cernovich did with the pizza-gate myth. Or how the anti-vaccination lie was spread. Those are examples of lies injected into the right wing media machine by the Kremlin for dissemination.

From filings in the Manafort case, Manafort was feeding polling information to the Russians. This was likely an example of the hand in glove cooperation between the campaign and the Kremlin on how best to direct this Kremlin activity that you're pointing out.

Scrotie, you're grasping at straws here. The Trump campaign has bragged in the past that their social media campaign was a ground breaking success and critical factor in their win.