![In September, Facebook confirmed Russian trolls spent $100,000 on its platform during last year's US elections.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171020105306im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/0/1/x/t/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gz31v1.png/1508406581890.jpg)
Masters of dark arts: Facebook failing on fake news
Australian Tim Doyle spent $85.10 and 10 minutes to set up a 'fake' ad account on Facebook, and a page "Ohio for Trump" linked to it. He got 10,000 people in Ohio to view it. Imagine what a bigger budget could do.