I look forward to actual evidence abt why a bunch of rural voters came out for Trump. @AthertonKD
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I think it likely that the MANY things that poisoned FB-mediated news was key, but that's in no way JUST Russia.
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I also think Hillary emails/FBI/Comey/coverage of same far more important than Russia.
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Agree a lot of factors involved. But think the misinformation spread was a significant factor. Rather a witches brew
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Agree, misinfo important. But misinfo not, at all, solely from Russia.
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Yes. But fact that Russia could create something like opportunistic infection doesn't mean we can ignore it.
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The infection point is in Facebook. Did RU exploit same weakness everyone else did? Yup.
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But the way to cure it is not by distracting from fact that MANY toxic fakes used it.
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One reason it's easy to weaken democracy is bc it is already weak, FB is part of that weakness.
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Disturbing that it's so hard to get ppl (incl much MSM) to understand awful threat posed by DT interest conflicts.
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I think they're getting it now. It's a bit late, though. @AthertonKD
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Would definitely been better to get it a month ago.
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