Re:Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake n...
by panarky on Sunday September 24, 2017 @11:59PM
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> I've heard the number $100,000 thrown around ...
The truth is that we don't know the total spend.
FTFA:
Congressional investigators say the disclosure only scratches the surface. One called Facebook’s discoveries thus far "the tip of the iceberg."
If the $100k really is the "tip of the iceberg", and 90% of icebergs are under water, it could be $1M paid ads for Facebook.
And that doesn't count the well documented fake news campaign for organic social sharing, which could easily be a multiple of this in spend and impact.
Since the election was decided by less than 100,000 votes, it seems plausible that this could have flipped it.
The truth is that we don't know the total spend.
FTFA:
Congressional investigators say the disclosure only scratches the surface. One called Facebook’s discoveries thus far "the tip of the iceberg."
If the $100k really is the "tip of the iceberg", and 90% of icebergs are under water, it could be $1M paid ads for Facebook.
And that doesn't count the well documented fake news campaign for organic social sharing, which could easily be a multiple of this in spend and impact.
Since the election was decided by less than 100,000 votes, it seems plausible that this could have flipped it.