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The actual senate inquiry's report about the initial 'Russiagate' ended up showing a mere $150,000 in Facebook ads, pointing to one piece of actual news damagin
by unity1001 4y ago
The actual senate inquiry's report about the initial 'Russiagate' ended up showing a mere $150,000 in Facebook ads, pointing to one piece of actual news damaging to a certain US party's interests as the proof. That was the breadth of election tampering by 'foreign entities' - $150,000 in crappy Facebook ads, in an election that $4 BILLION is spent every election season. Yet they made SO much noise about it that you'd think actual Russian agents were stealing ballot boxes and stuffing them with false votes. This tirade is still going on since then.
Smells like 2003 again.
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Its amazing how the US funds NGOs and even directly does propaganda through govt. organs everywhere on the planet to actually meddle in their elections but mounts a stampede if someone does so much as to spend $100k in ads in US elections. Exceptionalist doublespeak.
Every country has the right to spend as much ad money as they want and do as much propaganda as they want in the US elections as long as the US keeps doing the same to every. single. country on the planet except various Pacific island republics.