It's interesting that the Trump people and the Russians both seem to have employed the data resources provided by Cambridge Analytica to manipulate people.
I wonder if that's how they both get folks gradually to become susceptible to propaganda. It's all about assembling data about what goads a person into a response.
We've seen in these parts folks abandon what they once seemed to believe in favour of alternative (ie manipulated) sources of information. So it happens and seems to work. Scary.
Quick descent from principle without facts to conspiracy theories. I suspect Trump is himself a victim of it. Certainly via Fox News. He prefers the fantasy.
I imagine the newspaper trolls are mostly Putin's people as well.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump?CMP=share_btn_tw