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Democrat Narrative Falls Apart: Study Finds Russian Trolls Had Little Influence on 2016 Voters
Breitbart ^ | 01/10/2023 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 01/10/2023 9:32:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

According to a recent study, Russian disinformation and misinformation campaigns on social media had little influence on voters during the 2016 election. Discussing Russia’s alleged influence on the election, a longtime leftist narrative, one of the report’s authors said, “My personal sense coming out of this is that this got way overhyped.” The Washington Post reports that a new study by the New York University Center for Social Media and Politics found that Russian influence operations on Twitter during the 2016 presidential election did not significantly impact voter behavior or attitudes.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016; democratoperatives; hoax; imaginaryrussians; imaginarytrolls; madeitallup; russiahoax; russian; russianbogeyman; russiatrumphoax; trolls; voters
Looks like Hillary is going to be throwing her empty vodka tumbler at her TV tonight.
1 posted on 01/10/2023 9:32:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will it take 6 years to expose the 2020 election steal? 6 years seems to be the decent interval


2 posted on 01/10/2023 9:37:59 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: DeplorablePaul
Will it take 6 years to expose the 2020 election steal? 6 years seems to be the decent interval

Maybe, but the results will be the same... nothing.
3 posted on 01/10/2023 9:40:18 AM PST by TexasGunLover
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To: ChicagoConservative27

1. Kinda curious how the authors defined “troll”. Any Russian national supporting Trump?

2. And why weren’t they also studying the influence of European and Chinese nationals supporting Democrats?


4 posted on 01/10/2023 9:42:01 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But it worked when it was needed. It tied up the Trump Administration for at least two years and generated all kinds of false bad press. Now, when it doesn’t matter, these studies and the press reveal that the Dem narrative was a lie. But the Dems are onto the next narrative and this doesn’t matter anymore. There is zero accountability for the FBI, media, and Russia Hoax special counsel team that perpetrated this fraud.


5 posted on 01/10/2023 9:42:42 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The whole Russki interfering with the 2016 election was a commie plot hatched by Slick Willie’s biatch. She should be in prison for her crimes.


6 posted on 01/10/2023 9:59:47 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Doesn’t matter, the MSM successfully poisoned and brainwashed a majority of the planet there was Russian interference.


7 posted on 01/10/2023 10:45:40 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There were people who believed the Russian hoax and were influenced in their votes. All 1000 of them live within five miles of the Atlantic coast.


8 posted on 01/10/2023 10:59:09 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They were just trying to be all over the board with consistency in the “Russia-Russia” lie.

Unfortunately for them, it shows pre-planned destruction of an individual in addition to insurrection type activity. It needs to be dealt with legally.

It was like a pre-planned murder.


9 posted on 01/10/2023 11:19:23 AM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It does not matter that it all fell apart. It accomplished the hampering of Trum’s Presidency and set the scene for the stolen election of 2020 which is the final “election” that placed the Party in power permanently or at least until theStates openly resist along with the nonsubverted citizenry.


10 posted on 01/10/2023 7:11:59 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe |)
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