When the "Russians stole the Election for Trump" noise started, I was one to ask [1]: how much do we know? Where's the evidence and even if they bought a few Facebook ads [2] it didn't seem to compare to an election where billions were spent and what about other countries?

Well, it appears that there are other countries involved in election meddling online (would be surprised if any weren't, tbf). And this one points to Israel, but I still have the same questions as there is no evidence this works (it just poisons public discourse which I'm sure many Govs, including our own, are already doing... and it certainly leads to mistrust amongst the people). Hell the costs here seem minuscule and, like the Russians, if they can influence an election for that cheap, they need to charge a lot more and just get crazy rich... 

That being said, as I said... a decade ago (jfc, that's a while back huh?)... what all this is setting up is a poisoning of social trust... that is all. Hope no one here trusts social media. You do have to verify more than ever before... 

and tbf, this guy just sounds like some ex-SF guy (yeah I know kettle black and all) trying to hustle through life. His hacking into Telegram is interesting..  but still. There are bigger fish out there and it ain't him (for example the article talks about him seeding stories... fine, but our journalists seem to be the worst in this, and they do it by parroting the State Dept or WH). 

[1] Initially I too wanted to believe that it was stolen... and hell, if we get rid of all electronic voting machines we'd be better off IMO)

[2]  (it was never that much and if you looked at views it was pathetic... hell the Times article saying that they reached 100M people was laughable. I've run ads on FB and for a few hundred can reach close to 100,000s of people... that doesn't translate into eyeballs paying attention or sales...)