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> some russian company spending $100K on facebook ads

The Kremlin internet propaganda project had, at its peak, a budget of more than $1.25 million per month.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/mueller...

The poster probably referred to the operation at 55 Savushkina Street in Saint Petersburg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

> Or are you someone who believes the propaganda that some russian company spending $100K on facebook ads is why Trump got elected?

https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download

I didn't know that the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was a Facebook ad campaign! Why have we been worried about all this mutually assured destruction stuff then anyway? They clearly don't have as many likes as we do.

The point isn't to play victim. It's to come to terms with the evils we have all committed (as Russians, Americans, etc.) and make sure we don't do so in the future.