Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said pranks pulled on U.S. government officials by Russian trolls accomplish two things: “The first [goal] is adding info to a political dialogue in which discrediting one side is useful to Russia. The second is being able to make the argument to the rest of the world that U.S. leaders are easily duped. Putin’s interests are served when U.S. leaders are made to look foolish in the eyes of the world.”

January 4, 2020 ・ From The Washington Post