Absolutely correct. Facebook has avoided telling the rest of the story, but it’s likely that the Russian click-entrepreneurs probably made a minimum of three times their investment back. Someone last year was estimating that some of the more popular ‘click’ chances might have brought back one dollar for each penny invested in BLM ads or pro-Trump ads. It was a brilliant strategy on these Russians to figure out the profit set-up for Facebook, and rig it in their favor.
And that's all it was was a quick buck scheme by the Russians exploiting Facebooks crummy operation. The Russian posts had zero to do with "influencing" the election. I defy anyone to make any coherent sense of what influence these ads could have had, especially when many of them ran *after* the election.
Mueller and his corrupt gang of Clinton supporters latched on the Russian ads and attempted to "repurpose" them as somehow pivotal in the election. $100K worth of junk ads on Facebook. Good grief, what a sham.
“Facebook has avoided telling the rest of the story”
That’s precisely what a lie of omission is. And there are a lot of those told.