Why would this be flagged? It's a Reuters UK news about what is clearly an extremely important topic. It's clearly about hacking which is mentioned multiple times in the article. This is not a Russia Today article or something from the Onion...
If you set up a popular Qanon or BLM or MAGA site you will make ok money from advertising.<p>Popular <==> controversy.<p>Meddling in elections is profitable for lots of people, not just the Russians. I'd stop fixating on them.<p>Maybe as a state actor they can do more than commerce, but that's quite a socialist point of view.<p>We seem to have forgotten the Macedonians - <a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/</a>
What, and let the Russian authoritarian regime to keep going to legitimize itself with its rigged voting system? To stop sponsoring the pro-democracy activists in Russia? No, it's the Russians who should simply cease their meddling with the elections in the US, stop promoting the hatred, confusion, and intolerance in the US public, that's for the first step. Then the Kremlin should actually allow the pro-democratic forces in the Russia to come to power, form the government that would be dedicated to democracy and liberty and protection of the human rights, and reform the stagnating economics, and cease foreign military escapades (and return the annexed territories to their rightful owners: Crimea, Donbass, South Abkhazia, Kuril islands, Königsberg, Karelia, the list goes on and on), that's for the second step. Only after that it would even start to make sense to demand from the US to "not meddle" in Russian elections. Until all that happens, demanding from the US to stop its support for democracy and human rights in on of the most illiberal modern authoritarian regimes is simply disgusting and cannot be met with anything more than scornful refusal.