Yep, every country tries to influence others, interference would be screwing with the votes, not trying to change the minds of the voters.
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In the past, we knew when Russia was feeding us propaganda, that was just a load of manure. This time they fed us propaganda disguised as our own internet news sources. What used to be Americans sharing information on facebook, or in chat rooms, became Russians pretending to be Americans, spreading propaganda. So those news sources republicans kept linking to, turned out to be news planted by Russian agents to disrupt the election. And republicans were all too willing to do russias bidding.