Rigged for Hillary wrote:
Quick poll- How many liberals on this board changed their vote to Trump because an ad made them change their minds Let's hear it.
How many of the millions of Hillary supporters nationwide were magically persuaded by some voodoo-like ads to change their votes to Trump? Do you libs realize just how insane you are to believe this nonsense?
Russia, Russia, Russia
If ads didn't work, nobody would use them.
Russia used micro-targeted ads and fake news sites very skillfully on platforms like Facebook. Using stolen Facebook data, they were able to push ads and bogus news stories that specifically appealed to the things that "triggered" certain voters. By analyzing a voter's likes and clicks, they knew exactly how to manipulate certain people in certain key swing states.
How did they know who to target? The Russians also stole voter data from the DNC.
To affect the election, Russians didn't need to convince liberals to vote for Trump. The targeted ads and fake news were designed to:
1) Boost turnout among Trump voters (or those that leaned Trump)
2) Suppress turnout among Hillary voters (or those that leaned Hillary)
3) Make Bernie voters angry at Hillary, so they would stay home.
4) Convince as many voters as possible to cast a protest vote for Jill Stein
In states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, where Trump won by just a few thousand votes, this likely made all the difference. We will never know exactly how many votes were affected, but it would be incredibly foolish to think that the Russian voter targeting operation had no effect.