By the first week of October 2016, Russia’s pawprints were all over the presidential race. Not this year, researchers say.
By Kevin Poulsen and Spencer Ackerman
All eyes are peeled for foreign interference in November’s elections.
But amid the Senate hearings on election security and indictments, the
warning sirens and reports, experts in computer security and influence
operations are quietly acknowledging an elephant in the room, or, more
accurately, a bear that isn’t. With just 28 days to go before the
midterm elections, they haven’t found any evidence yet of direct Russian
interference in 2018’s races.
By the first week of October 2016,
Russia’s paw-prints were all over the presidential race. Wikileaks had
already dumped thousands of DNC emails stolen by Russia’s Main
Intelligence Directorate, the GRU, and was on the verge of doing the
same to Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. A persona created by Russian intelligence was giving press interviews and chatting
with a member of Donald Trump’s inner circle. Provocateurs at Russia’s
infamous troll factory in St. Petersburg had already organized pro-Trump
and anti-Clinton rallies
around the country, drawing hundreds of Americans into the streets to
wave MAGA signs and dangle from Vladimir Putin’s invisible strings.
This year, crickets.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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