If all it took to sway the US electorate was a $100,000 investment in ads on Facebook, then why did the Clinton election committee spend $1.4 billion on the campaign? And the Trump election committee spend $1 billion?Heracleum Persicum wrote:.
How Russia
divided Americans
What has now been made clear is that Russian trolls and automated bots not only promoted explicitly pro-Donald Trump messaging, but also used social media to sow social divisions in America by stoking disagreement and division around a plethora of controversial topics such as immigration and Islamophobia.
And, even more pertinently, it is clear that these interventions are continuing as Russian agents stoke division around such recent topics as white supremacist marches and NFL players taking a knee to protest police violence.
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“The broader Russian strategy is pretty clearly about destabilizing the country by focusing on and amplifying existing divisions, rather than supporting any one political party,” ....
“I think it absolutely continues.”
In clear text, above means, Trump a Russian agent .. can't tell true or false .. but, it sure feels that way
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Clinton’s Super PAC spent $6 million on ads in the swing states of Florida, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. “Even a full US$100,000 of Russian [FB] ads,” Mark Penn wrote in the WSJ, “would have erased just 0.025 percent of Hillary's financial advantage in the campaign.”
Once again the politicians and their media sycophants are making good use of much of the US population's innumeracy and credulity.
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