Parry is again just grasping at straws here.
No. It's the MSM grasping at straws. NYT claims it is "Russian hackers", "Russian-controlled ...", "Russian information attack", "Russian efforts", etc. etc. , without offering one single piece of evidence that it is the state "Russia" behind this.
As the article says, "Even skilled investigators often cannot be sure if a particular Facebook post or Twitter bot came from Russian intelligence employees, paid “trolls” in Eastern Europe or hackers from Russia’s vast criminal underground."
I'd like to add, there are several million Russians living in the US alone, not so few of them very literate IT people able to fabricate digital fingerprints (fake IP numbers etc.) in the direction they are paid to do, or like to do, because it's on their political agenda.
Without providing any valid evidence, MSM continues to rehash and spread the same old anti-Russian propaganda.
My belief is that all this originates in the US, or is directed by political interests in the US, and not Russia. Of course, I have no evidence for that claim, but this is anyway just about beliefs and political agendas. And the hypothesis of US origin is more reasonable in many ways.