I wonder about people's ablility to understand basic math - sm Posted: Oct 11th, 2017 - 4:17 pm In Reply to: Don't you wonder how many Russian-sponsored - messages you might have seen
The last figure I saw about Russia's Facebook advertising said they spent $150,000.
The Washington Post says $2,400,000,000 was spent by the Presidential candidates. While the entire 2016 election of Presidential and Congressional candidates cost $6,500,000,000.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/14/somebody-just-put-a-price-tag-on-the-2016-election-its-a-doozy/
Here's the math challenged part: What's the percentage of that $150k?
0.0625% of the Presidential election.
0.0231% of the entire 2016 election.
Interesting that people trying to say Russia played a role don't lay out the numbers in comparison. Or maybe it's enough to say "Russia bought ads, therefore..."
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