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Facebook made nearly twice as much from the Trump campaign as it did from the Clinton campaign—$44 million compared to $28 million between June and November 2016, according to an internal Facebook document circulated after the election and obtained by Bloomberg. Trump’s campaign in total spent around $85 million on Facebook ads and promotion, according to Theresa Hong, one of the main brains behind the digital arm of his presidential bid who also helped manage Trump’s Facebook page. And there’s no telling how much money Facebook made from the many political groups and pages—shady and otherwise—buying ads in support of Trump.

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