From the article:
it may shortly become even harder to disprove the uncomfortable proposition that Cambridge Analytica’s main data-related crime was overselling its own capabilities rather than actually hacking democracy with the help of the Russians.
They're this close to saying that whoever voted for Trump or didn't vote for Hillary did so of their own agency.
Edit: archived version. https://archive.is/nWSBB
Woah, almost like Trump spoke to some real pain people felt in America, pain caused by - what? The material conditions of the nation?? No. It's facebook memes
Wrong! It's always Russians all they way down.
"They induced Trumps victory" is the latest galaxy brain argument I've heard. Something along the lines that "even if they didn't really change the outcome, they affected the narrative which changed the outcome". It never ends.
isn't it great how all the capitalist media has to do is ignore a story and never mention it again, and it might as well not have happened