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The flimsy case for Russia’s role in Sanders to Trump crossover vote

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Carl Beijer
Apr 12, 2019
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The Washington Post has just published an article about “the Russian effort to target Sanders supporters – and help elect Trump”. Once you wade through about 1500 words of background, however, the substance is quite thin: the Post asked two researchers to “[examine] English-language tweets identified as coming from Russia”.

What did they find? 9000 tweet…

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