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George Pyle: There will be no blaming Russia today

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Congress and the special prosecutor continue to delve into the allegations of how Russian-based hackers and propaganda shops put out all kinds of false information and incendiary images designed to disrupt our most recent presidential election. As they should. Especially if it turns out those efforts were not only designed to help the campaign of the eventual winner, but coordinated with it.

By somehow worming their way into the social media algorithms and data bases, we are now told, bad actors were able to pinpoint the however many thousands of Facebook users who might be receptive to messages that exacerbate existing, if latent, fears of a black planet, of Islamic terrorism, of perverted cross-dressers in public restrooms and of a woman president.