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Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by frandroid on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:44PM (#14860646)
> I appreciate nobody spends on elections quite like the USA

The scale is nowhere close. Maybe if you include black money, India might be a contender, but how much of that is spent online?

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Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by pm90 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:44PM (#14861063)
> Maybe if you include black money, India might be a contender, but how much of that is spent online?

Not much. And besides, I don't think you could spend it online even if you wanted to. Unless Facebook is accepting cash payments for ads in India ;-).

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Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by legolas2412 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:52PM (#14862321)
Your establish fake accounts and pay those IT cells

You pay influencers/fake news outlets/biased media sources.

Though, not much is probably spent in India this way, but it's definitely there

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