looking back at it but even they seem to have realized their sounding the alarm was futile. people couldn't hear it. a few days before the election, john maddes posted got all that get news from this page, be advised that groups from macedonia have planted fake headache stories about hillary." now, this has been previously reported, previously discussed around the campaign as if that foreign influx of sort of noise and vitriol was all commercial traffic. people in foreign countries who didn't care about the u.s. election but they're writing this story to troll for clicks to get gullible u.s. policy junkies because they wanted the ad revenue they could get from clicking on their stories. and there's a commercial element.