Yes, very interesting.
The author comes very close to implying that the proliferation of conspiracy theories, mostly pointing to a government that is murdering its own citizens, it ITSELF a conspiracy by Russian powers to create distrust and confusion in the US. I think this level of paranoia is unhealthy --
For every intentional conspiracy, there's probably a hundred instances of uncoordinated stupidity and accident. No conspiracy is needed to explain Dick Cheney's blinders, no conspiracy is needed to explain Trump's desperate ego. The mere existence of alt-right thinktanks like AEI and Cato explain most of the traffic.
The fact that alt-right sources link to each other should not come as a surprise.
Once again, I come back to the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine as the beginning of the end of trustworthy journalism. The proliferation of consumer-created news, in the age when every teenager with a modem could start his own blog, only furthered the equalization of news with "fake news."