but Hillary lost.
Facebook has identified $100,000 of ads that came from accounts associated with Russia.
Clinton and Trump combined spent $81 million on Facebook. [1]
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-ad-spend/
Russia only needs to sow discord, they don't need to follow you through the entire election season like Hillary does. A few targeted ads here and there are all that's needed to compound their other efforts across the web.
Most of the crappy ads I see come from other ad networks (outbrain, taboola, etc).
Who spent $1.4B vs Dr. Trump's $957.6M
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...
including $3m on buying r / politics, via ShareBlue if /pol/ is to be believed