An interesting opinion piece that compares Russian trolling of U.S. social media sites to The Bachelor. An analogy that might help some parts of America understand that Russian hacking and internet meddling is an effort to create drama.
"Heart of Texas wasn’t a real group, as Business Insider later reported. United Muslims of America is a real organization, but the Facebook page promoting the counterprotest was not run by the actual group, as The Daily Beast found. Instead, according to documents made public last week by the Senate Intelligence Committee, both the pro- and anti-mosque protests had been planned and promoted by Russian trolls....
The Houston protest videos depicted a bunch of Americans duped into fighting each other in public, all at the whim of an unseen force that, through expert and surreptitious cajoling, had gotten them to lose control of themselves on camera. I’d seen this show many times before, and you probably have, too. It’s called “The Bachelor...The Russians are running a reality show through Facebook and Twitter, and their contestants are all of us."
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