Statistician Nate Silver — about the last person who'd be accused of riding the Trump train — posted a series of tweets Monday on Russian efforts to mettle in the 2016 election that undermine the premises of the Hillary Clinton-pushed narrative that "Russia stole the election."
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1074823132085673984[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1074846918247940096[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1074848968188796930[/TWITTER]
Silver's posts have already begun to gain some traction on the right, including over at Twitchy.. The truth is, everything he's arguing has been pointed out numerous times by many on the right for some time. The Russians' various disinformation campaigns appear to have had no clear agenda other than to create chaos and undermine America's democratic process. Fake Russian profiles and Facebook pages didn't just promote pro-Trump rhetoric, they promoted anti-Trump rhetoric, Black Lives Matter events, and other left-wing causes. Their impact is unclear but almost certainly overstated, as Silver argues.
Nate Silver Dismantles 'Russian Disinformation Stole The Election' Narrative In Tweet Thread
as I have said REPEATEDLY
The GRU and $ 2 Million Dollars and 12 Trolls From Minsk as the Internet Research Agency
vs
1 or 2 billion dollars spent by Candidate Campaigns, Candidate Parties - Nationally, State and Locally on behalf of Candidates
2 million dollars is a rounding error
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1074823132085673984[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1074846918247940096[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1074848968188796930[/TWITTER]
Silver's posts have already begun to gain some traction on the right, including over at Twitchy.. The truth is, everything he's arguing has been pointed out numerous times by many on the right for some time. The Russians' various disinformation campaigns appear to have had no clear agenda other than to create chaos and undermine America's democratic process. Fake Russian profiles and Facebook pages didn't just promote pro-Trump rhetoric, they promoted anti-Trump rhetoric, Black Lives Matter events, and other left-wing causes. Their impact is unclear but almost certainly overstated, as Silver argues.
Nate Silver Dismantles 'Russian Disinformation Stole The Election' Narrative In Tweet Thread
as I have said REPEATEDLY
The GRU and $ 2 Million Dollars and 12 Trolls From Minsk as the Internet Research Agency
vs
1 or 2 billion dollars spent by Candidate Campaigns, Candidate Parties - Nationally, State and Locally on behalf of Candidates
2 million dollars is a rounding error