We knew about cambridge analytica in 2018, of course russia would try something similar, but the greatest success of their campaign was to turn everyone into a russian bot
Most of the somewhat attributable bot tweets were so obvious bait that they weren't even that effective, but after the discourse started, every political discussion devolved into a cpusa meeting circa red scare and mkultra
They are both partially correct
We knew about cambridge analytica in 2018, of course russia would try something similar, but the greatest success of their campaign was to turn everyone into a russian bot
Most of the somewhat attributable bot tweets were so obvious bait that they weren't even that effective, but after the discourse started, every political discussion devolved into a cpusa meeting circa red scare and mkultra
And just to add, the "bot" terminology is pretty dehumanizing, when most of the data points to just farms of people posting