I don't know how you got from the article to your first paragraph. Maybe we shouldn't just to that conclusion. (It may in fact be true, but maybe, you know, evidence, rather than just assuming?)
Even if there's only weak evidence tying this particular astroturfing campaign to Russia, there is no reason whatsoever to expect that Russia has backed off their efforts more generally. They've had great success so far with few meaningful repercussions. When you find organized political astroturfing online (especially with an apparent aim to sow discord), Russia now has to be on the list of suspects even before there's any specific evidence tying it to Russia. The prior probability of Russian involvement is high enough that almost any shred of specific evidence is enough to put them near the top of the suspect list.
You should read the followup to all of the “meddling” uncover by the special counsel in the last year. I think you may be surprised!
I’m still surprised that Bloomberg spent $1.2 billion on his campaign and barely scraped a delegate. But Russia spends a few thousand on facebook ads and boom!
"A Twitter account tied to Murphy’s email address promoted nothing but spammy paid surveys for years. And a Skype lookup on his phone number curiously returns a Russian profile under the name валентина сынах (translated as “Valentine Sons”)."
Not saying it's a smoking gun, but it's hardly as baseless as you're claiming.
Ah. I read (I thought) the article, but I apparently got fooled by an ad break, and thought I had reached the end. Still, even if true, that's Murphy. That's not the Dorr brothers, or the Koch site, or the Orange County Republicans. So, even if Murphy is a Russian cutout, much of the rest of this isn't. That leaves anonu's point as somewhat valid - they're still meddling, at least to some degree (and in fact, I kind of presume that they would continue to try to do so) - but his comment still seems like a bit of a reach for a response to the article. One of those registering has a maybe-to-plausible Russian link, so let's veer off and talk about Russian meddling? Yes, we do in fact need to talk about it (and more, find ways to stop it), but this article doesn't seem like the place.
