`An engineer at Facebook notified the company in October of 2014 that an entity with Russian IP address had used an API key to pull over 3 billion data points, per day` Basically a social network + employment data of the west.

after they added opengraph metadata, that got very useful

Is russia really the Boogeyman?

In terms of attempting to influence US elections via social media and other means, yhes

in terms of real military or economic threat, no

i’d be surprised if there is a big nation which does not do that

collecting dirt and graphs of who knows who is sorta the whole thing

in case something ever comes up down the line