Now you're making up numbers. You don't know how much it cost to pull off election interference so comparing the price of one thing to another is pointless.IF it cost 2 million dollars per election in EVERY CITY IN AMERICA (which it doesnt) the purchase of Twitter would still have been more expensive by billions of dollars. (19,000 x 2,000,000)
And, no, social engineering isn't a crime. I made no statement about how they did or didn't carry out a crime. My point is about social engineering which is more insidious than election interference.