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When people who know what they're talking about talk about "election hacking," they know that no actual hacking took place. They were Facebook ads. That's it.



"They were Facebook ads. That's it."

If you think Russian "election interference" (does that term make you feel better?) was limited to "Facebook ads" you either haven't been paying attention, or are just trolling. I'm going to guess the latter.


I've been checked out for a bit. Did they finally come up with concrete evidence? Are you saying they actually altered vote tallies?


I agree that we shouldn't claim votes were changed without evidence, but you are forgetting about the DNC hack and subsequent email leaks.


You're kidding, right? There is an unsealed speaking indictment from the Department of Justice [1] that details the GRU hacking operation that released the DNC emails.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download


We do have evidence that the voter databases of at least 20 states were targeted and a few successfully accessed. At least publicly, it is uncertain as to whether data was changed in any way.


That's a straight up lie.




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