The stories make incendiary claims based on secret info about a Democracy Destruction campaign; claims that can't be independently evaluated
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Congressional staff leaking this highly subjective info undoubtedly put on their own spin, and then media uncritically regurgitates it.
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1) Tens of thousands of dollars is trivial in the context of a multi-billion dollar, multi-year behemoth of a presidential campaign
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2) Under the loose definition used, the sinister "ads" could've easily been RT or Sputnik promoting their Trump, Sanders, or Stein coveragepic.twitter.com/cyxBsgSj2o
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As usual with the Russian Meddling Mega-Narrative, critical faculties get de-activated and pliable US media eagerly abets the scare campaign
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A network that a minuscule fraction of the US public would even know about if not for the recent hysteria about it.
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Tens of thousands of dollars! Wow!
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It’s a miracle American democracy is still standing after such an onslaught.
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They always use the verb "meddling" as well. As if Russians are the Scooby Doo gang driving around in Mystery Machine
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I see. So you’re arguing the money spent could simply be “concerned Russian citizens” creating political ads and paying to post them. Ok.
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The article doesn’t say Russian citizens. It could be US citizens with a Russian name. Poor Igor now branded an”operative.”
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They never clearly define what Russian "meddling" entails either.
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And google laughed all the way to the bank
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“Tens of thousands of dollars” Trying as hard as they can to make that sound like major money. Total PR flack shit.
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