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- I don't trust Putin at all but this election hacking hysteria is completely boneheaded.Fax_Benson
- Which part? So far I've only seen evidence to suggests the tip of an ice berg. We know they aggressively influenced, there's no disputing that.formed
- yep noone is disputing they influenced the election - the question is Trump's involvement. They 100% got involved just as US would.fadein11
- Wasn't there someone on here from Eastern Europe who said he saw the same tactics in his country?yuekit
- When you consider the number of Putin opponents who have dropped dead from poison, gunned down on the street etc., it's hardly a stretch to think they would beyuekit
- willing to hack into someone's servers or astroturf on YouTube and Twitter.yuekit
- I'm not saying the U.S. doesn't engage in meddling in other countries, of course it does. But this is one area where Russia seems to have taken the lead.yuekit
- US needs to catch up and start hacking rather than assassinating candidates they don't like. Bad PR nowadays.fadein11
- I guarantee the US is hacking the shit out of everyone else, regularly.monospaced
- yep and shooting people they don't like.fadein11
- hard to influence an election in Russia though.fadein11
- Hacking yes, but I haven't seen much evidence they engage in that sort of mass propaganda campaign Russia does -- and tied to a specific ideology (nationalism).yuekit
- It's a new frontier, and imagine how crazy it will get once artificial intelligence and language processing advances further.yuekit
- yep - AI is scaring me a little on a lot of levels (not skynet shit)fadein11
- The USA is one massive propaganda machine. It's media, celebrity, films, music, culture, internet ... it's out there.monospaced
- Don't you think there's a difference though between cultural influence and propaganda directed towards a specific goal?yuekit
- I'm not saying you're wrong, but perhaps we don't need such directed propaganda because of the media and cultural influencemonospaced
- +1 monoset