Contradictory meaning

"Much of 2017 was consumed with untangling the political mess that was 2016 and Russia’s role in it. Much of what we learned came from American journalists, who brought us revelation after revelation about how the Kremlin meddled in the presidential election. Through these reporters’ domestic sources—in the White House, Congress, and the intelligence community—we learned how Russians bought Facebook ads aimed at sowing division; how Russian government agencies https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2Frussian-election-hacking&action=click&contentCollection=politics®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&and https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/house-democrats-hacking-dccc.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article; how Russians loosely affiliated with the Kremlin https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2Frussian-election-hacking&action=click&contentCollection=politics®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=; and how the Kremlin turned the popular Kaspersky Labs anti-virus software into a spying tool.

Very little information came from the other side—from Russian journalists. Arguably, we learned far more from their stories about Russian campaign interference than from American news stories. Yet you can count on one hand the stories about it published in Russian media." Could you please interpret the meaning of the second abstract. Author says that very little information came from the Russian journalists and then states that we learned far more from them than formal Americans. Sounds strange and contradictory . Thanks.