Exiled wrote:... I guess you can continue to believe that the minimal amounts spent by the Russians outfoxed Clinton and her Hundreds of Millions.
Lol. There it is again.
I’ll just park this here:
The attempt to hand-wave away the impact of activities on Facebook on the basis of dollars spent strikes me as either disingenuous or obtuse. It takes virtually no investment to launch a meme that can be repeated a million more times by followers of compromised or suspect sites. Given that these memes can be created within moments - even by anyone with only a cellphone app - the ability to spread misleading or untruthful information is limited less by actual dollars than by the number of folks willing to spend a second to forward or repost a simple image.
The exercise of working to sway the general public’s opinion is currently very easily promoted by technology that enables the most minor of actors while requiring virtually no cash, if one has the correct entry point or timing.
Spending millions of dollars on those activities, then, has incredible potential to reach millions of people over an extremely broad time span, limited only by the stupidity or dishonesty of the audience.