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Comment by dmitrykan | Hacker News Reader

Any article that starts with biasing against some country (Russia, Iran, Finland, whatever) discourages from reading it. Because the authors unequivocally assume that guilt of a particular country is already a known truth and hence does not need a separate discussion -- so we can safely plunge into Facebook's issues of not being able to withstand such attacks.

So, sorry, not going to read the article.

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It's because the guilt of a particular country is a known truth, in this case Russia interfering with the 2016 US presidential election, according to all US intelligence officials when speaking on record. If you need a separate discussion (because there have been many) pick any news organization from the states and look up information about this topic.

Like one Russian friend of mine joked: "if you need your tax system hacked, let us know."

That it is published, does not necessarily mean, it is truth.

It is a long standing play: the farthest is likely an enemy. Likely, Chinese hackers could do it or anybody who wanted to interfere. But if it was hacked, shows something for the ability of each individual government to protect themselves. Same is published of other, not only U.S., governments, like Britain.

It far easier to claim a hack, than to acknowledge, that Trump was _actually_ voted for.

Notice that I didn't say "hack", and much of the news doesn't focus on them "hacking" the election in the sense that they altered the vote to get Trump enough votes to win (I'm sure some have argued it but most sources deny that widespread voter fraud or vote altering happened). By now it's accepted that Trump did not win the popular vote but did win enough states to win the election, just like in 2000. The focus is on disinformation instead, like ads bought on Facebook, Twitter, etc., which has been shown to have happened.

Information engineering, that is. In his book "Parting with illusions" V. Pozner claims from journalist's experience: no matter what external propaganda will do it can be neglected really. Because internal propaganda will beat it in a big way.

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