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Because the republicans have slowly but surely dismantled public education, and always prevented any media literacy initiatives to take root, while using religion to amplify these effects. There's a German musician named Reinhardt May who had the following line in his song "Sei Wachsam"("Be Aware"):
(poorly) translated:
The song in its totality is now 30 years old, and can't be beaten in actuality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdBo34ycvkw for a live recording, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGjpz1feBsU for english lyrics.
Thanks for that, that was really good
Np. I was a kid when my parents where listening to him in the car. He has a lot of upbeat and outright funny songs too, all with very well done lyrics (he is a poet, after all) which is why i liked him as a kid. I do not listen to him on the regular because i like other genres more, but he had a lasting influence on me regarding my taste in lyrics.
Don't forget the Russians desire to destroy us and the part they played
Who owns the media and the algorithms? Of course Russia tried, like the US in other countries, but that can't be the power structure behind Trump.
You haven't been paying close enough attention...
Please tell me how it is.
You can start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report
And here:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-mueller-investigation-explained-2/
And here:
https://investigaterussia.org/media/2018-03-18/cambridge-analyticas-russia-connection
And here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum
And if you still have doubts that it's a concerted and deliberate strategy that's an explicit part of Russia's internal policies, try this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
And this:
https://www.bbc.com/video/docs/series/10141108
(That last one didn't used to require a subscription to watch... you might be able to find it on the high seas)
Edit: bonus Putin Ordered Kremlin to ‘Destroy NATO and EU From Within’
The British tool must be ages behind Facebook's internal tools and Russia has to ask them for ideas to get started.
Of course Russia does what it can. But it only gets Facebook's external data, not their full internal tracking information.
Russia has to play the algorithm while Facebook can just change the parameters to rank the content however they want.
The imbalance of power is so big that Russia couldn't have influenced the election in a meaningful way.
Sure, but they exploit the weaknesses created by internal forces.