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At some point I have to start wondering if Putin pays these sorts of people.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Russia didn’t donate money to Stein hand in hand, but funded social media campaigns including adds and fake accounts explicitly with the goal of supporting Stein. So it contributed money to Stein’s campaign effort.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna951166

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/facebook-russia-trump-sanders-stein-243172

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Russian-funded Facebook ads backed Stein, Sanders and Trump

Not the Russian funded Bernie Sanders!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They only funded adds for sanders after he lost the primary in order to try and siphon votes from democrats to have him as a write-in.

Sanders himself never supported this and denounced it. Sanders had stopped running then so Russia did not contribute to his campaign effort.