Russian election hackers were not all that clever after all?

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Russian election hackers were not all that clever after all?

Trolling is most definitely an art form (granted, not one of the higher ones), and the Russians working at the Internet Research Agency had a little fun while screwing with our democracy.

Even so, while Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has brought detailed charges against a baker’s dozen of Russian’s working for the Internet Research Agency over their attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, a detailed look at the inner-workings of this Russian “troll farm” that has shaped our national discourse over the past year and a half is wicked amusing.

For example, the phony email accounts they created were lame even by the standards of all too typically banal domestic social media trolls.

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Then again, maybe these Russian election trolls know that essentially all social media and free email account set-ups are as automated as were the Russian hackers’ bots.