[PeachPlum]

> Fake news, facebook & twitter ads that influenced US elections proved that it's possible to do something like this.

but Hillary lost.

Facebook has identified $100,000 of ads that came from accounts associated with Russia.

Clinton and Trump combined spent $81 million on Facebook. [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-ad-spend/

[jbob2000]

I think it's a mistake to equate ad spend with ad effectiveness.

Russia only needs to sow discord, they don't need to follow you through the entire election season like Hillary does. A few targeted ads here and there are all that's needed to compound their other efforts across the web.

[colordrops]

Signals and noise are coming from every direction at much greater orders of magnitude during an election cycle. If her campaign was so weak that a little "discord" killed it then she already lost on her own.

[anudeep2011]

Are there any numbers about what's spent outside of facebook/twitter? Or at least any investigations going on?

Most of the crappy ads I see come from other ad networks (outbrain, taboola, etc).

[brndnmtthws]

It's amusing that this is being downvoted, when it's a very interesting point. People want to silence the facts they dislike.

[PeachPlum]

I expect it's because I mentioned the Queen.

Who spent $1.4B vs Dr. Trump's $957.6M

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...

including $3m on buying r / politics, via ShareBlue if /pol/ is to be believed