NEW YORK ¨C Russia ¡ª OK, not the actual Russian government but a private click-farm company located in Russia ¡ª bought $100,000 worth of political ads on Facebook designed to change the outcome of the 2016 election. Except that only a small fraction of those ads were political. Also except that small fraction was divvied up between pro-Hillary Clinton and pro-Donald Trump ads. And especially except that $100,000 in Facebook ads can¡¯t affect the outcome of a $6.8 billion election.
Now the same media outlets who touted Robert Mueller¡¯s fizzled Russiagate investigation daily for three years is warning that Russia is planning to do the same thing in 2020.
Be slightly afraid. Very slightly afraid.
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