On top of that, we're not just talking about pro-Trump, anti-Clinton ads. Some of the Russian ads were clearly designed to incite racism[1,2]. There was an anti-Islam rally in Houston[3], organized by a Facebook group called "Heart of Texas", which was later revealed to be a fake account operating out of Russia.

This isn't just an abstract game of geopolitics, they're literally trying to incite racial violence.

1: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/353480-report-russian-b...

2: https://www.recode.net/2017/10/7/16439936/congressional-blac...

3: https://thinkprogress.org/armed-white-supremacist-protest-or...