The Post’s report was based on the findings of “two teams of independent researchers found that the Russians exploited American-made technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment.”One of the reports came from PropOrNot, a nonpartisan collection of researchers with foreign policy, military, and technology backgrounds, whose executive director told the Post, “The way that this propaganda apparatus supported Trump was equivalent to some massive amount of a media buy. It was like Russia was running a super PAC for Trump’s campaign…. It worked.” [: see below.]What’s especially striking about reports like these is the picture that emerges when we add the details to the picture that already exists. Consider:* The FBI and other American agencies concluded that Russian hackers did, in fact, steal Democratic materials in the hopes of helping Trump win the U.S. presidential election.* The FBI also launched “a preliminary inquiry into Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s foreign business connections,” including connections in Russia and Putin’s allies in Ukraine.* Shortly after Election Day, Russian officials said they were in contact with leading members of Trump’s team during the presidential campaign despite the Republican campaign’s claims to the contrary.* McClatchy reported over the weekend that since Election Day, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “have spoken at least twice by phone,” and that doesn’t count the additional contacts between the two men’s aides. The report added, “That’s more contact than Trump is known to have had with any other world leader since he defeated Clinton in the Nov. 8 election.”Remember, each of these stories are just from the last month or so.Eric Chenoweth, the co-director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe, wrote in the Washington Post over the holiday weekend, “In assessing Donald Trump’s presidential victory, Americans continue to look away from this election’s most alarming story: the successful effort by a hostile foreign power to manipulate public opinion before the vote.”: The PropOrNot report is available in its entirety here . Note that The Intercept has published its own piece questioning PropOrNot’s accuracy.