The media in the US are failing to inform
They always did, but now due to the internet it gets visible to everybody:
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/the-u-s-media-yesterday-suffered-its-most-humiliating-debacle-in-ages-now-refuses-all-transparency-over-what-happened/
There last fight with terms like fake news falls back on them.
Eventhough the mainstream propaganda has having a deep impact on many well educated people as this article shows:
https://futurism.com/welcome-age-digital-warfare/
Because if you just get one side of the story, it is difficult to see that there is more than one possibility. Probably the DNC was hacked and not leaked. No democrat ever said, that the material is not true and when the mainstream media viciously tried not to mention it, thanks god that there are RT and other websites like Global Research and Wikileaks to bring the information out to the people. Probably the same e-mails could be found at the Republican party but they showed all interested/aware/awake people how oligarchy in the US works (Citigroup and Podesta/Obama).
The easiest way to manipulate is through omitting parts:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-us-and-russian-air-forces-engaged-in-syria-us-acts-as-isis-air-force/5622283
Please also read and resteem this article with thoughts about changing/improving steemit:
https://steemit.com/steem/@mathsinnature/rethinking-the-steemit-monetary-system-wallet