Exiled wrote:If I want better health care, better wages, more money in the hands of consumers, it is not because Russia told me so. If I want our troops to come home and to shutter our innumerable military bases abroad, this isn't because of Russia.
Good for you. Unfortunately for a large part of America and it’s citizens,
advertising works to do just what you are saying it doesn’t do. Specifically, advertising works to tell you what you want, and who or what will get you what you want.
Call me crazy, sure, but this
advertising seems to be a major driver and presence in virtually every minute of every aspect of our modern consumer society.
If several Russian trolls create content on Facebook or elsewhere that goes on to be reposted or retweeted a few million times, then they’re essentially trying to sell you and the rest of the population on something that benefits themselves, and they’re doing it through millions of advertisements initiated via a nearly nonexistent financial expenditure. And it’s
working as planned
because this content
is being reposted and retweeted a few million times. There’s your proof of ‘the sell’. That is what has happened, and what will continue to happen, even if folks continue to pretend that such influence isn’t occurring.
And before you come back with another claim that this isn’t how the world works, ask yourself why you ever, say, stepped into a McDonalds for the first time.
