If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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    Uh, actually yeah it did. Turns out they were just normal pro-russia conservatives. I thought the Cucker interview would have made that connection pretty obvious. They weren’t paid to post that kind of propaganda, they were doing it willingly.

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      These things are not mutually exclusive. The fact that Russian propaganda bots swayed a large percentage of American republican fascists in no way debunks the bots. It just means that it was an effective propaganda campaign.

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      I’m sorry I was hoping what I was asking would be more clear:

      Did something specific, that you can link to disprove the existence of Russian bots in social media?

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        Sure but first you have to get me a link to an instance of evidence ever swaying someone’s opinion on the internet and not just turning into a debate about the validity of the evidence. EDIT: And the admin literally did that and you went quiet, you’re so fucking full of shit.