[mrguyorama]

The tactic isn't about any one thing but rather just keeping a distractable and gullible voting bloc from paying attention to any one thing and forming a coherent ideology or reconsidering their faith in a politician for obvious nefarious things. The republicans are MUCH more effective at doing this than democrats, but they have no qualms about massaging how news gets disseminated in order to hush up bad things and emphasize stupid things.

[likeabbas]

But there are democrats joining republicans in investigating this. Senator Gillibrand and Chick Schumer have introduced legislation specifically targeting this.

[lamontcg]

Gives the Qanon crazies on the right wing something a bit safer to chew on.

[likeabbas]

Or this situation gives the dogmatic hacker news posters something to hit refresh for

[lamontcg]

Win-win-win for the politicians on either aisle looking to pacify the masses.