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>It just so happens that it's very cheap to sway some voters. You say this very matter-of-factly. Do you have any evidence to back that up? Could you isolate t
by ameister14 7y ago
>It just so happens that it's very cheap to sway some voters.
You say this very matter-of-factly. Do you have any evidence to back that up? Could you isolate that audience? As someone that has run a lot of political and consumer ads over the last 10 years, I'd really like to figure out who those people I can get for 100k that I can't get for 81 million are.
Propaganda does work. Russian propaganda does not work nearly as well as Madison Avenue propaganda, and that's been shown for decades. I'll give the edge to the Madison Ave guys spending tens of millions, here, over the Russian troll farm and 100k.
>If Russia could get a particular energy bill passed with $10k of Facebook propaganda, it would do that
Sure. I don't believe it can, though, and nobody has provided evidence to the contrary. Attempts, sure, but no real success.
It is my belief that the US FBI had much more to do with swaying the 2016 election than Russia's $100k Facebook ad spend.