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The analytical tools to quantify the impact don’t readily exist. But we know what we see, and what we heard—and the narratives pushed by the Russian information operation made it to all of our ears and eyes.

https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia-affect-the-2016-election-its-now-undeniable/

I wonder how such tools would look like. It's definitely possible to identify dominant narratives and figure out how certain factors affect their relative strengths. Maybe it should be along the lines proposed by R. Shiller.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.107.4.967