Arkady
President
Mueller's investigation just handed down 13 indictments for Russians involved in election fraud. These included people who create fake American identities to participate in social media in ways designed to hurt Clinton and help Trump. So, was anyone here nailed by one of the indictments?
I'm asking tongue-in-cheek, because I know nobody was, and I'll tell you why. It's not because of the content of the posts. There are plenty here who objectively assisted in the Kremlin's effort to smear Clinton and build up Trump. But if you were working for Putin, why would you waste your time here? Even at Russian wage levels, there just aren't enough undecideds here to make it worth having a propaganda asset posting here. The only way hitting PJ would make sense would be in the form of the hit-and-run posters who occasionally blindly copy and paste something and never bother to engage, who might well be bots and thus able to spam large numbers of small audiences, for a good cumulative effect.
That's why I roll my eyes whenever anyone on either side suggests that the other side's PJ posters are paid for their work. No matter how hacky the work can be, I just don't see why anyone would pay for it, in this setting, when, with the same time and effort, you could reach ten or twenty times the audience elsewhere.
I'm asking tongue-in-cheek, because I know nobody was, and I'll tell you why. It's not because of the content of the posts. There are plenty here who objectively assisted in the Kremlin's effort to smear Clinton and build up Trump. But if you were working for Putin, why would you waste your time here? Even at Russian wage levels, there just aren't enough undecideds here to make it worth having a propaganda asset posting here. The only way hitting PJ would make sense would be in the form of the hit-and-run posters who occasionally blindly copy and paste something and never bother to engage, who might well be bots and thus able to spam large numbers of small audiences, for a good cumulative effect.
That's why I roll my eyes whenever anyone on either side suggests that the other side's PJ posters are paid for their work. No matter how hacky the work can be, I just don't see why anyone would pay for it, in this setting, when, with the same time and effort, you could reach ten or twenty times the audience elsewhere.