An international group of political scientists did something that no MSM outlet bothered to do in the seven years since the 2016 election: study the issue.
For 3/4 of a decade, we have been subjected to story after story about Russia Russia Russia and how it stole the 2016 election through a sophisticated influence campaign designed to get Donald Trump elected. Such stories were repeated endlessly and, through clever manipulation of the facts and the dishonest utterances of Democrats, were turned into the meme that Russia “hacked” our elections, a claim for which there is no evidence at all.
There is little doubt that Russia maliciously engaged in some social media manipulation to muddy the waters and play havoc on our system, although the evidence that it was a large-scale effort is scant, and there has never been any evidence at all that it played a role in the outcome of the…
