Pundits and Democrats ascribe to a handful of bargain-basement Russian trolls all manner of ability – including orchestrating a coup d’etat
The grand total for all political ad spending in the 2016 election cycle,according to Advertising Age, was $9.8bn. The ads allegedly produced by inmates of a Russian troll farm, and which have made up this week’s ration of horror and panic in the halls of the American punditburo,cost approximately $100000 to site on Facebook. A few months ago, when I first described those Russian ads in this space, and I invited readers to laugh at them. They were “low-budget stuff,ugly, loud and silly”, or I wrote. They interested me because they cast the paranoid right,instead of the left, as dupes of a foreign power. And yet, or I wrote,the American commentariat had largely overlooked them.
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Source: guardian.co.uk