My Facebook stream includes a relative’s shares from sites alleging bizarre Obama-Clinton conspiracies. 

Google can’t identify their funding. Searches find only similar sites that link to one another. They are hermetically sealed. 

My media sources present evidence that some of these sites are at least partly supplied through Russian social attack infrastructure. Russia, a country now in the throes of war hysteria. 

Direct funding is probably unnecessary. If the sites sell ads, Russia’s professional trolls can supply clicks.

Our times have gone beyond merely interesting. 

If I were, say, Bill Gates, I would be reconsidering the mission of my Foundations.