The figures haven't been finalized but it's estimated that the cost to taxpayers of the Mueller investigation into Trump-Russian collusion prior to the 2016 presidential election will be in the range of $32 million to $35 million. After all, the process took almost 2 years, making the expense roughly $1.5 million a month.
An article in the San Diego Union-Tribune states that the Russian state media agency, Russia Today, spent as much as $247,000 on Twitter during the run-up to the election. Facebook admits that it sold about $100,000 in ads to a Russian "troll farm", starting as early as the summer of 2015.
According to an article in TechCrunch.com:
Russian information troll farm the Internet Research Agency spent just 0.05 percent as much on Facebook
ads as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s campaigns combined in the
run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, yet still reached a
massive audience. While there might have been other Russian
disinformation groups, the IRA spent $46,000 on pre-election day
Facebook ads compared to $81 million spent by Clinton and Trump
together, discluding political action committees who could have spent
even more than that on the campaigns’ behalf.
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