Thus, Facebook users who were getting IRA content in their newsfeeds were overwhelmingly influenced by "Project Alamo" and the Breitbart-led media system not by the Russian troll farm.
Mueller treats the WikiLeaks publication of the purloined DNC emails as an assault on the Democratic system as though it were a continuation of Soviet Cold War "active measures." But it is a false parallel, because the revelation of the Democratic Party leadership's covert interventions to deny Bernie Sanders's candidacy a fair chance to win some early primaries were not only true but sorely needed to force reform of the Democratic Party's leadership.
The Mueller report doesn't show the Trump campaign collusion the public had been led by media coverage to expect. But it is a siren song for a continued focus on the supposed threat to U.S. democracy from Russian "meddling". It is aimed at maintaining public support for a focus on the threat from Russia, which diverts the attention of the media and Congress from real threats to democracy from Trump's domestic agenda, including its attack on voting rights. And it feeds into the growing power of militarist interests in maintaining high tensions with Russia and scoring record military budgets.
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