Russian efforts to spread disinformation on Twitter during the 2016 presidential election didn’t produce any measurable impact on the results of the election, a new study suggests.
For the study, published on Monday in Nature Communications, a team of researchers from Ireland, Denmark, Germany, and the United States examined Twitter users’ behavior and attitudes during the eight months leading up to Election Day on Nov. 8, 2016.
Almost three years after the election, the Senate Intelligence Committee released an 1,000-page report, saying that the Russian government meddled in the election through a covert social media campaign in favor of Republican nominee Donald Trump. The committee didn’t find any collusion on Trump’s part….