And what about the facts coming out about voting system intrusion and all the buzz about manipulated voter rolls that could easily have accounted for the number of votes that dictated the outcome of the election in key states?
It was quite a bit more than "some ads on FB and twitterbots" and to downplay the extent of their actions is disingenuous.
Even NPR reports that there was no voting machine fraud perpetrated by Russian actors, only that intelligence agencies say it appears they tried and expect them to try some more.
Interestingly WaPo is going counter tight wing as well as left wing predispositions and calling for national voter id.
What happens with a lot of this stories is something gets carelessly published, a lot of people read it, and then it's retracted and the retraction is seen by far fewer people.
It was quite a bit more than "some ads on FB and twitterbots" and to downplay the extent of their actions is disingenuous.