Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Study: Russian interference had no meaningful effect on 2016 election results

We have known for a while that Trump-Russia collusion was a hoax. 

What about Russian interference of the 2016 election?

That's pretty much a big nothing too.

From the Record:

A new study has poured cold water on assumptions that Russian social media operations interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election had a significant impact on the final result. 

The research from the Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University, published on Monday in the journal Nature Communications, found “no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior” among those who had been exposed to it. 

It is the first study that measures the impact of this exposure through a longitudinal survey, which asks the same questions of the same group at different points in time to observe any changes. The survey was completed by YouGov in three waves between April 2016 and November 2016.

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