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Just prior to and following the 2016 Presidential Election, the technology sector led us to believe that the Russians had made a mas*ive effort to sway American voters.  Given that the tech sector, particularly Google and Facebook have a business model that relies almost solely on advertising, one would think that state and non-state Russian actors would have spent untold millions of dollars on convincing us not to vote for Hillary Clinton.  Recent testimony on Capitol Hill by Google's Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai puts dollars to purchase ads on its advertising platforms that span multiple Google products as part of the Russian agents' campaign to interfere in the election two years ago.  Additionally, Juniper Downs, Head of Global Policy for YouTu*e (a Google product) testified in July that YouTu*e had identified and shut down multiple channels containing thousands of videos as*ociated with the Russian misinformation campaign.  Does Google now know the full extent to which its on-line platforms were exploited by Russia actors in the have learned a lot from that and we have dramatically increased the productions we have around our election offerings leading up to the If you wish to see the exchange for yourself, please forward to the 43 minute mark in this video Given Google's global reach, the diversity of its platforms and its power to affect change, it is interesting to see that this company which touts access and technology for everyone benefitted from less than $5,000 in spending by Russia-linked accounts.  Keeping in mind one really has to question the entire notion of Russian interference in the election through the use of social media, particularly when we avid follower of the world's political and economic scene since the great gold rush of 1979 - 1980 when it seemed that the world's economic system was on the verge of collapse. I am most concerned about the mounting level of government debt and the lack of political will to solve the problem. Actions need to be taken sooner rather than later when demographic issues will make solutions far more difficult.