The early returns are in, and the experts are divided.
The Wall Street Journal reports that “U.S. officials said they hadn’t observed any significant efforts to directly breach election infrastructure with cyberattacks.”
Facebook said otherwise, according to the New York Times.
“Just hours after most of the polls had closed, Facebook said it had blocked more than 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts “due to concerns that they were linked to the Russia-based Internet Research Agency,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, said in a statement.”
According to Politico., President Trump boasted, falsely, that “Unlike the previous administration, we’ve done a lot of work on that issue.”
Russia’s most notorious troll farm claimed victory.
I’m convinced by this report in Just Security, that Russia made extensive efforts to influence U.S. electoral politics. That’s more important than whether they succeeded.
