Surely you can point me to some sort of evidence of its effectiveness then?
The exact outrage you mentioned noticing. The outrage didn't stop it, the outrage IS it. Russia doesn't care if we know they're meddling, it works just fine at generating instability anyways. It might even work better that way. Look at us, here we are still talking Russia. It's going to continue to work for as long as people let it so easily outrage them.
It was already a gasoline-soaked pile of wood scraps and leaves, piled up higher and higher for decades (if not centuries). The social network meddling is the lit cigarette flicked into it.
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning