Tuesday, October 9, 2018

No Evidence That Russia Is Interfering In The 2018 U.S. Election Cycle



Kevin Poulsen, and Spencer Ackerman, Daily Beast: Researchers: No Evidence That Russia Is Messing With Campaign 2018—Yet

By the first week of October 2016, Russia’s pawprints were all over the presidential race. Not this year, researchers say.

All eyes are peeled for foreign interference in November’s elections. But amid the Senate hearings on election security and indictments, the warning sirens and reports, experts in computer security and influence operations are quietly acknowledging an elephant in the room, or, more accurately, a bear that isn’t. With just 28 days to go before the midterm elections, they haven’t found any evidence yet of direct Russian interference in 2018’s races.

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WNU Editor: Another story that regurgitates what we heard after the 2016 election that Russian interference swayed the electorate to vote for President Trump, while ignoring how radically biased the media was then (and is today) .... Study: Economic Boom Largely Ignored as TV's Trump Coverage Hits 92% Negative (NewsBusters). On a side note .... and speaking of interfering in this year's election cycle. Where is Robert Mueller?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

if Putin(esca) got what he wanted in the presidential elections, why bother with midterms?

Roger Smith said...


Anon,
I don't think Putin wanted HRC who would be rather pushy in order to get the headlines and he sure didn't get what he thought he would get with Trump, assuming he thought the situation would be hunky dory with Trump.
I've personally seen nothing of Russian interference unless hacking of HRC e-mails was their doing. If so where do I send my thank you check?
When people refer to Russian interference, to what are they referring?

B.Poster said...

To what are they referring? A weak candidate with a poor message lost to a,superior candidate with a much better message. The losing candidate, her team, and her supporters in the media needed an excuse so the Russian interference narrative was born. Now they may actually believe their own lies.