matjam
Crusty old UNIX engineer
Voter suppression strategy?
Foreign powers have a vested interest in stoking the flames of discord in the United States. The more people screaming about bullshit conspiracies, the more unstable the US is, the more shit they can get away with.
Putin has been running this playbook for the past 20 years and people just eat it up.
I don't know it explains all of the idiocy that's going on, but I think it explains a lot of it. For example the recent report showing 99/100 of the top Christian facebook groups were being run by Russian troll farms tasked with spreading misinformation about covid, elections, etc.

