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Comment by selivanovp | Hacker News Reader

I find some comments in this section quite funny.

Russia was blamed with USA elections rigging because someone payed for facebook ads to promote one of the candidates.

In this case we have every evidence, that a group of people, financed by foreign organizations, created multiple apps, websites and other sources to manipulate people voices.

Wake up guys, such activity should and will be banned in every country.

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> such activity should and will be banned in every country.

You're delusional if you believe that the current Russian government doesn't manipulate people's votes already. https://ruxpert.ru/images/3/3a/146%25.jpg

Russia is a democratic state where people elect their leaders.

US is a totalitarian state where people are manipulated by oligarch-controlled mass-media, with non-transparent voting process.

Oh, sorry, it's the other way around. I always confuse one with another.

I see very little difference in the two countries. Big money and powerful people control the narrative and social structures of both countries to the point that the average person has little say in the outcomes of elections.

Most people will never wake up. The system's very existence relies on it. Or alternatively, our system arises from humans being basically apes with very strong in-group/out-group instincts.

Guarantee people most outraged about this are same people who wanted to yeet Mango Mussolini from Facebook and Twitter for being Russian agent. None of them are having a lonely thought in their head how the said companies might have oppressed domestic opposition and if they did it's Good & Beautiful.

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