Folks like you are being willfully ignorant. It's very easy to understand how the Russian fake news operation got such a good ROI. The election came down to aro

Folks like you are being willfully ignorant. It's very easy to understand how the Russian fake news operation got such a good ROI. The election came down to around 20k votes in three states. Combine an unprecedented data mining operation (Cambridge Analytica) with microtargetting enabled by social media companies, as well as the viral nature of fake news, its easy to see how a small amount of money can sway a marginal amount of voters in key states.