Guardian published a rather disturbing article how Russia manipulated many popular social accounts and promoted various activist movements in the US. It is embarrassing for those who now found out that the protests they attended were actually Russian sponsored trolls.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/21/russia-social-media-activism-blacktivistHow deep is Russia involved in such activities?
While it’s disturbing for sure, I don’t think that we have enough evidence that Russia has gone as far as to manipulate in a meaningful way American opinion of politics and certainly not enough to change election results.
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That said, Russian information warriors have a limited reach due to the state Russia is in currently. Most of them have a very limited English ability, so they hardly can succeed in persuading anyone outside the Russian-speaking Internet space. Then, modern Russia is simply a very corrupt country, and it cannot afford to spend as much on hiring propaganda agents overseas as USSR could. Finally, Americans in general have a pretty negative opinion of Russia, so any argument coming from there when recognized as such will be received with a high degree of skepticism, at best.
So I would say that the issue is Moderate, despite the Russian government trying hard to make it Deep.
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