> Debatable, unless you're taking the claims that $100K of meme-tier ads on Facebook changed the outcome of the election at face value. It's not just Facebook,

> Debatable, unless you're taking the claims that $100K of meme-tier ads on Facebook changed the outcome of the election at face value. It's not just Facebook, or Twitter, or 4chan, or Reddit, or HN, or IRC, or email, or TV ads, or superpac ads, etc.... Ads can be targeted moreso than ever, celebrities are more easily roped in willingly or as useful idiots. Content has wider possibilities ("verified" emails). People are much more primed for disinformation than they were in the past. > Is it really? Facebook certainly seemed very sure of every little ad that was purchased by a Russian party. They paid in rubles. They didn't seem to even think it was terribly important to hide.