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by alexandercrohde·9y ago·view on hn ↗
My feelings on this issue are complex. Though I had previously been vocally skeptical about attributing hacking to Russia, I'm a little more middle-of-the-road now.

It's inconsistent for a foreign government expressing opinion on American politics to be called "propaganda" while we allow corporations to spend any amount of money trying to change peoples opinions via super-pacs. The line between propaganda and political dissent is very blurry.

I suppose I'd say Russia didn't do anything "wrong," (after all Americans foreign interventions are much more heavy-handed than anything described here), but I do now think it's likely Russia did want Trump to win and that Russia would potentially use more advanced meddling techniques if it thought it could get away with it.