At the end he makes an interesting point: that this worked in the US not because it has a lot of stupid people (which Russia presumably has too) but because it has a lot of stupid people who have not been lied to too much.

“Who really reads the comments under news articles, anyway?,” he said when asked whether the tactics worked in Russia. “Especially when they were so obviously fake.”

“But for Americans, it appears it did work,” he continued. “They aren’t used to this kind of trickery. They live in a society in which it’s accepted to answer for your words.”