Come late October, Mattes shared his findings with Buzzfeed where he is quoted as saying, "What is most disturbing is that the Macedonia stories worked to directly help Trump," and, "The stories targeted Sanders supporters, creating doubts about Hillary among a key voting bloc."
In March, Mattes' assertions were proven correct when the former director of the NSA testified that Russia had employed over 1000 trolls to plant Anti-Hillary disinformation on Sanders social media platforms.