How Russian-Funded Fake News Network Aims to Disrupt Election in Europe

It's just stupid.

Similarly calling out American election interference is not "americanophobia" or calling out Israeli or Syrian war crimes and genocides is not "phobia".

Phobias are irrational. With the rich evidence it's called "facts".

"Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be FBI director, was paid $25,000 last year by a film company owned by a Russian national who also holds U.S. citizenship and has produced programs promoting “deep state” conspiracy theories and anti-Western views advanced by the Kremlin, according to a financial disclosure form Patel submitted as part of his nomination process and other documents."

Also, influence of money on politics is obviously huge. You can predict the winner based on how much money they have, and the mass media blitzes they do, on a lot of local elections.

Democracy as an idea, I think people need a certain level of media literacy and the media has to be unbiased for people to make good decisions. But then, that was not a thing in the mass media era and that’s clearly not a thing in the social media era.