Backtracking: WaPo Admits Russian Trolls ‘Had Little Influence’ After Years Hyping Role in Trump’s Win

The Washington Post acknowledged that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election regarding its social media footprint was not as significant in putting Donald Trump in the White House as the paper previously hyped.

In a report from the paper’s “The Cybersecurity 202” newsletter headlined “Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters,” the Post cited a new study from the New York University Center for Social Media and Politics that analyzed what sort of impact disinformation and misinformation had on one social media platform, in this case Twitter.

Josh Tucker, one of the study’s authors, told the Post, “My personal sense coming out of this is that this got way overhyped.”

“Now we’re looking back at data and we can see how concentrated this was in one small portion of the population, and how the fact that people who were being exposed to these were really, really likely to vote for Trump,” Tucker said to the Post. “And then we have this data to show we can’t find any relationship between being exposed to these tweets and people’s change in attitudes.” (Read more from “Backtracking: WaPo Admits Russian Trolls ‘Had Little Influence’ After Years Hyping Role in Trump’s Win” HERE)

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