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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (73148)	5/24/2018 1:40:56 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 367268

Don’t you follow the news at all? The total “Russian” spend on all pre-election Facebook ads was just over 100,000 k. You probably have more money than that in your 401k plan. Here is an article for you to read on it from the WAPO: washingtonpost.com Key paragraph With $81 million spent on Facebook by the Trump and Clinton campaigns, mostly to mobilize core supporters to donate and volunteer, a low-six-figure buy is unlikely to have tipped the election. The Russian effort looks even less influential when one considers the tiny amount of Russian Facebook spending directed at key battleground states — $1,979 in Wisconsin, $823 in Michigan and $300 in Pennsylvania. From an electoral perspective, the campaign was remarkably unsophisticated.