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You’ve found those figures from the transparent and independent Russian statistics department giving the figures in roubles?

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The cost to hack hilary's unauthorized personal email server could not have been that high.

Hillary didn't get hacked, it was one of the other people in her circle who got phished. John podesta I think?

Anyways. Yeah, phished. Maybe it's super secret agents or maybe it was a teenager from 4chan.

Both happened. The spearfishing John Podestra gmail hack was separate.

The Hilary personal email server used for government business that contained classified information that was illegal was hacked by Russian agents the fbi alledged.

FYI, putting in heavy partisan asides in comments hurts credibility with neutral readers.

I think you're confusing the DNC and campaign server hacks with Hillary's personal server she used while at State. No indications her personal server was hacked: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/mueller-clinton-arizona-ha...

Hillary's IT Admin was asking on reddit how to wipe a server of a VIP. With such incompetent admin there is a high probability that the server was hacked.

> Maybe it's super secret agents or maybe it was a teenager from 4chan.

Actually Hillary was hacked by a lone wolf from Romania, and he received jail for this https://youtu.be/8gfzNyZ3trI

From Wikipedia[0], quoting the Mueller report:

> The Mueller report detailed that the IRA spent $100,000 for over 3,500 Facebook advertisements, which included anti-Clinton and pro-Trump advertisements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report#Social_media_ca...

That an outrageous 0.0015% of the estimated 6.8 billion price tag of the 2016 election. Damn Ruskies and their election interference [shakes fist at the sky].

Fun fact, 100k is 0.4% of the price of the Mueller report itself, at 25M.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-2016s-price-tag-6-8-bi...

https://time.com/5557693/mueller-report-cost

That is Facebook ad spend, not the total cost of the attack.

It doesn't include other things described in the paragraph that the IRA did, like organizing Trump rallies and running troll farms where they posed as Americans on social media.

It also doesn't cover things like paying for the operation to infiltrate the NRA etc.

And then of course there could be stuff we don't know about

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