when they found out that the Macadonian boys were teens and pre-teens using 10 year old desktops and who’s primary purpose was to make click-dollars from sponsors irrespective of whether the topic was political, cooking or sports, they dropped the whole ‘massive fake-news data centers with thousands of people’ excuse.
I wish. It keeps coming up, not often, but it's not dead. Relabeled now to "active measures" so as to hide the details.