Two popular conservative Twitter personalities were just outed as Russian trolls

I expect we'll be seeing a lot more of this in the months to come.  This was multi-front assault (to several, often contradictory, sides) to provide apparent "support" to people who want to believe, rather than think about, their agenda.  It wasn't always for Trump--although many of his supporters were ideal targets for this sort of thing, and even if there wasn't "collusion" the campaign went out of its way to spread the memes.  Sometimes it went to Bernie believers.  Sometimes it went to NeoNazis.  Often it made its way into more "respectable" (read "gullible") media.  What are we to take away from this?  Don't assume that someone is who they say they are on social media.  Get to know the people you talk to by other means.  Trust people you really know more than people you only "know" on-line, and check where they get their information (repeated, circulated emails are a dead give-away of a manufactured story).  Each of us has access to more information than a major intelligence service could have dreamed of accessing a few decades ago.  Most of it is noise, at best.  Some of it is carefully-designed crap.  Approach everything critically--and that includes, of course, everything you hear from me.  Think for yourself. 

Two popular conservative Twitter personalities were just outed as Russian trolls