The Washington Post ran a headline two weeks ago that captured the country’s fevered mood perfectly: “Wondering if the Russians reached you over Facebook? You can soon find out.” In a middling bit of clickbait, the Post managed to conjoin the prevailing sentiment of collective victimhood with the media’s favorite theme of 2017: Russia’s attempts to influence last year’s presidential election. “Together nearly 150 million Facebook and Instagram users may have had pieces of Russian disinformation content—both paid ads and free posts—reach their accounts,” the article gravely intones, before admitting that there’s no way of telling how many people actually …read more
Source: The American Interest
