For those who are reading stories about the indictment of 13 Russians pretending to be U.S. persons, I would ask you to read the indictment . Too many news organizations have slanted the purpose and intent of the indictment to reflect their political views, either Left or Right. The indictment is pretty clear about how the money was facilitated, how it was funneled into the United States, and how it was intended to disrupt both sides of the 2016 Presidential election. Just the fact that the Russians could devote only a few people to such an activity and have as much success as they did - on the disruption side, at least, they did good work - is amazing.
Another thing it shows is that the operations were carried out so as to make it appear that the transactions and ad payments were coming from the US. So while Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were looking for rubles and Russian IPs, the Russians were smart enough to do it right. The social media outlets were grossly underestimating the amount of paid advertising going on their networks - and they probably knew, and underplayed it.
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