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Opinion | Study: Russia's influence campaign on Twitter in 2016 failed
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Zeeshan Aleem: A study deals a big blow to the narrative that Russia may have thrown the 2016 election for Trump.

But while Russia’s goal of interfering with the U.S. elections has long been clear, what’s been less clear is whether it actually. Those who feared a new age of foreign countries shaping U.S. elections would be wise to consider the difference between Russia’s intentions and its actual effectiveness, and to contemplate how overestimating Moscow can distort their understanding of what’s happening at home.

According to the study’s authors, an estimated 32 million Twitter users in the U.S. “were potentially exposed to posts from Russian-sponsored accounts in the eight months leading up to the 2016 election.” Researchers and the U.S.

This study does not rule out that Russia’s interference influenced the 2016 election. This study focused only on Twitter, and it’s possible that Russian operations were more effective on Facebook, where there were more users and more exposures. And

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