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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Trump won by 70,000 votes. 10% of the ads could have done it. Who says these were all the ads anyway? And who says ads were the only mechanism of influence? Don't forget the bots and shills, to mention only the blazingly obvious....
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That would be ingeniously clever. These ads and bots and shills are not in a vacuum. They have competition.
However, let me point you to what I regard as part of the noise--headline: 10 million view ads; only to discover that 56 percent view the ads after the election.
Furthermore the only thing to connect these ads to Russia is that they were bought with
rubles.
Cost of the ads $100.000. Therefore we can make an educated guess that the cost of the pre-election ads is less than $50.000. Peanuts for any private citizen. In the media there is an hullabaloo about these ads.
Put up that against Trump spending over $150. million on Facebook and Instagram.
