It’s also meta overstating the power of influence. Why would they do that? Because it’s good marketing for them to sell a story around how their services running ads can be used for highly effective mass influence.
Yes, like the "Cambridge Analytica scandal." The "scandal" was people using their ad marketplace tools and a 100-line Python script to "hack" a presidential election. Also, the "Russian Election Interference" aka someone doing a $50k ad buy and "hacking" the presidential election.
