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> Russia spent less money [Citation needed]

You have no idea how much money they spent. What we do know from sworn testimony is that they reached 126 million users through Facebook alone [1] We also know they funneled millions into NRA to influence our elections with dark money.[2] They also had an army of social media influencers working at the IRA with a $1.25 million monthly budget. [3] And, what is the value of the influence from their state sponsored hackers that stole data and leaked through WikiLeaks? [4] No megachurch can do that.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/technology/facebook-googl...

[2] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-troll-farm-spent-mil...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...



Russia has tens of thousands full-time people sitting on computers just doing fake stuff on social media in America.

They basically took all the money and people they would have put into their regular army and put it into a social media army.




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