Providing some proof of these things is part of the story, but instead we just get an "I guarantee you".
How?
It doesn't. Russia doesn't care what a huge number of people are doing; trying to keep track of them would do nothing but waste their time and resources. They want to target a few specific people.
Well, a good geek doesn't want this type of "slop" content, because we label it "click bait". It's click bait because you only indicate social connections exist between entities of question and use excessive hype to build to the idea. It only raises more questions and does nothing to answer anything concrete about the "situation".
> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
That's from the posting guidelines on HN. We like answers here, not more questions.
I can't say I have a good answer. I guess I'm thinking it's a numbers game? I don't know really what an agency could do, but it certainly makes whatever they're up to much worse.
Being flooded with information generally doesn't help you. You can ignore it, in which case it isn't helping by definition, or you can try to do something with it, in which case it's generally actively making you worse off.
You know how people complain about not knowing what to think when a product has 30 reviews online? Imagine you're supposed to read fifty million reviews, and then use them to form an educated opinion on the product.