- .08 of a penny average on Facebook subscribers, total over a year’s time to sow general discord*
- They over spent. US based liberal trolls do it for free and far more extensively
- Sowing discord is what they do. Like leftists dupes everywhere
- By the way, what sort of pro-Trump outfit did they promote — how about Black Lives Matter
Ben Domenech writing at the Federalist: (excerpt)
The Democratic Line on Facebook and Russia is Crazy
The claims of Democratic Senators and Congressmen are utterly absurd if you know even a little about how Facebook works. . . .
Let’s also keep the amount spent on these ads in perspective. More than half a billion dollars was spent on social media advertising last year, with Facebook being the primary recipient. In the big scheme of things, $150,000 on Facebook ads is chump change. In just the last few months of the presidential campaign in 2016, Evan McMullin spent over $85,000 on Facebook ads, and lest you think that made a huge difference, McMullin came in 4th in a two-person race.
One of Hillary Clinton’s super PACs spent $500,000 on Facebook ads in September 2016 alone. A separate pro-Clinton PAC pledged to spend at least a million dollars to correct random commenters on the Internet. And Hillary Clinton’s official campaign spent $90,000 just to come up with a 13-song playlist for the Democratic candidate.
∗ V’pac figures: $150,000 spent (15,000,000 cents) divided by 195.91 million Facebook subscribers of age in US = < .08 or 8 one-hundredths of a penny. And that total was spread over a year’s time-period.
