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If you think every political power doesn't try and influence elections in some manner, you're being wonderfully naive.
Fact is, Russians have less power to rig elections then media broadcasters or social media companies themselves.
It's a minor threat in the scale of everything.
Comment by PenguinMaster7427 at 06/12/2019 at 23:06 UTC
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Yeah but media broadcasters in the UK are generally biased one way or the other, while the point of the Russian interference is to create chaos. I agree it's naive to say that "that doesn't happen it the UK lol" when the BBC (who are supposed to be neutral, and earn most of their income from TV licences, or in other words from the people) have made more mistakes[1] recently than they can really explain,[2] and other channels are just as bad[3]. That being said, it's clearly influencing public opinion one way or the other, it's a clear bias in one direction, whereas the Russian interference is done to maximise uncertainty and distrust. The Russian government benefit from us here in the UK distrusting our government and any confusion they can generate more than they do by directly trying to influence the result.
Comment by Silverdarlin1 at 06/12/2019 at 22:44 UTC
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I'd have to disagree; at least here in the UK. Considering most people get their news from the state owned broadcaster, and most social media companies are actually pretty neutral. Of course echo chambers are and always will be a problem, but very few countries actually try to spread false information about the candidates. Even Trump kept his mouth shut when he was over here recently!