Researchers: No Evidence That Russia Is Messing With Campaign 2018—Yet

By artappraiser on Tue, 10/09/2018 - 1:23pm |

EXCLUSIVE: Russia appears to be sitting out the 2018 campaign, top researchers tell @kpoulsen & @attackerman. No evidence of direct election interference. https://t.co/YQ0x2ENxQC
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) October 9, 2018

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/researchers-no-evidence-that-russia-is-messing-with-campaign-2018yet

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This prominent and notoriously skeptical academic didn’t believe Russia got Trump elected. Here’s what changed her mind. https://t.co/rI57wh035w via @phillydotcom
— Derek Cressman (@DerekCressman) October 9, 2018

Note that the above cites these two articles near the bottom:

Microsoft says hackers already targeted three 2018 midterm candidates

@ theverge.com, Jul 19, 2018, 5:40pm EDT

Russians Unsuccessfully Tried To Hack Computers Of Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill

@ NPR.org, July 26, 20188:31 PM ET

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/09/2018 - 11:24pm

Since writing the book, Jamieson — along with the others most carefully following the Trump-Russia probe — has been intrigued by a finding in one of Mueller's newer indictments that Russians successfully hacked the Clinton campaign's internal modeling of voter turnout. That would have made it easier for the trolls to find the Americans most likely to stay home or vote for a third-party candidate like Jill Stein instead of Clinton. But she also noted that the Russians could have figured out which voters to target by tracking the movements of Trump, especially when he campaigned more frequently in the Rust Belt. "There could have been coordination — but there didn't have to be," she said.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/10/2018 - 2:30am

Researchers: No Evidence That Russia Is Messing With Campaign 2018—Yet

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