So there were.... 3 mainstream media articles, out the many TENS OF THOUSANDS of articles published on the 2016 campaign, that embedded Russian troll tweets? I'm afraid that's not really helping your argument.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1075845985182441472 …
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Your argument is lacking in any sort of systematic evidence, at all. If you think impression counts are an imperfect measure -- and surely they are -- then come up with something better.
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In fact, it could easily be the case that the Russian troll posts were even *less* influential than the (already very low) raw numbers would suggest. Why? Because journalists are more likely to amplify known, trusted sources, and those accounts weren't known or trusted.
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Why are we spending so much energy debating whether it could have swung a close election as opposed to why the election was close to begin with? If trolls exploit and amplify our existing prejudices, won't addressing the latter be more effective at stopping the former?
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Let me know if you want to argue against a stronger strawperson and I'll get back to it.