" Certainly Russian trolls are trying to shape political narratives in the entire western world."

Oh my. The entire western world!

 So just out of interest, how many trolls would it take to blanket the entire western world with false information? And given the west has quite a few languages, where are the Russians breeding all these multilingual cyber-propagandists?

Help me out again: if an ordinary Russian posts a comment expressing his support for Russia on a website, is he a troll too? How would you know the difference between a Russian expressing his personal opinion and someone paid to express Russian government talking points?

One final question: is it your belief that the West doesn't have its own cyber-trolls disseminating the government's message, both to the western public and to people in Russia? Do you believe it's only the Russians that try to influence people that way?