Do you think advertising works, to influence outcomes? (There are a lot of people betting enormous sums of money that it does.) Should hostile nation states be

Do you think advertising works, to influence outcomes? (There are a lot of people betting enormous sums of money that it does.) Should hostile nation states be allowed to advertise anonymously to influence electoral outcomes? Do you think the people should get a say in whether hostile nations get to influence electoral outcomes? The government is the agent of the people.