None of the news outlets that helped spread suspicion about Russian Twitter trolls helping Trump win the 2016 U.S. election is owning up to their hype or catching any flak. But the study did not find that Russian trolls had “little influence” over the election; it failed to find any measurable influence at all. Will the Washington Post address the countless stories they wrote hyping Russian influence on the 2016 race? But that is also the last thing a Western journalist is likely to do, because they seek praise and approval not from the public, but from other Western journalists. Twitter is a great window through which to observe Western journalists, because they really lay it all out there.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2023 11:10 UTC