yousajoe

this is not a popular opinion with people who's heard their political party and media outlets constantly repeat the same thing over and over for years.

Facebook was used in 2016 by the Kremlin for disinformation warfare with the express purpose of swaying the results of our presidential election

As if a $100k ad buy [1] will sway voters. $100K is insignificant for social media ad spend and won't influence anything and marketers knows this, but the masses do not. Both candidates spent $81 Million on facebook ads [3] and $100K is a joke representing 0.05 of ad-spend.

The media and democratic party knows people are clueless about advertising and has made this "russia hacked elections using FB", a talking point that helps their narrative. FB ads are not that effective.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/facebook-russi...

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

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