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1. Trolled on Facebook
2. Bought divisive ads on Facebook
3. Published fake news on RT, often forwarded on Facebook
4. Cyber-stole and published Hillary Clinton/John Podesta/DNC emails
4a. Cyber-stole Republican emails but didn't publish them
5. Cyber-stole information about registered voters
UT note: this is information you can legally buy, or even get for free. In 1996 I asked for, and received, my county's voter database just by telling them that I was an officer of a political party in the county. (I was, but I didn't have to prove it.)
6. Funneled money into pro-Trump PACs
IIRC NY Times story showed they had an interest in hacking into voting machines in all 50 states; story found that the state they were most likely to be able to affect was Illinois, but did not have any evidence that they actually did affect anything. (And Hillary won Illinois, and was always going to, so why bother?)
The conspiracy theory is in the unproven bits. The top unproven bit is collusion, but people even go on to say Russia is managing Trump's press statements, or Russia might cut off American electricity during a cold snap in the winter, or Russia has a tape of Trump getting peed on which is why he's under their control. People take the puzzling evidence they have and build a narrative around it.
But it's true: Russia interfered in the 2016 election. It is well-proven.
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