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I think you seriously overestimate how unbiased you are.

I say this because you talk as if it's easy to separate fact from fiction these days. If you think it's easy, then I think there are some very important things you're missing.

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I wish my point came across clearer. It wasn’t that I am unbiased. It’s that the comments on this story are willfully ignorant of what we do know. For example it hasn’t been a secret for well over a year that the Russian disinformation played both sides. Yet what do we find? Repeated surprise at the lack of onesidedness in the linked advertisements.

There is a media/political machine at work every day pumping out propaganda that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to "hack" the election in Trump's favor. It should not be surprising that this has been effective in priming people to believe that Russian social media psyops (this is decidedly not "disinformation" as it is largely information-free) were specifically targeted toward glorifying Trump and demonizing Clinton.

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