House drops motherlode of Russian propaganda

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Taken together, the ads and the metadata provide a deeper picture than previously known of one aspect of Russia’s so-called “active measures” disinformation campaign. Hundreds of millions of Americans – nearly 150 million, Facebook acknowledged on Wednesday – didn’t realize online political material they were seeing and sharing came from a foreign adversary. But the Russians, capitalizing on social-media targeting tools made possible by accumulated data from billions of users, knew a tremendous amount about their unsuspecting American audience. 

“Russia exploited real vulnerabilities that exist across online platforms and we must identify, expose, and defend ourselves against similar covert influence operations in the future,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said during a hearing on Wednesday with executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google.

Paid ads are a small fraction of Russian propaganda on social media, both the companies and their legislative overseers emphasized. Far larger was the organic content created by troll farms like Internet Research Agency—a St.Petersburg-based Russian troll farm linked to the Kremlin—and spread over Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by both identity-concealed Russians and, eventually, their American audiences themselves.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-democrats-release-all-known-russian-troll-farm-facebook-ads-and-twitter-accounts

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Adding into account the reach of Russian propaganda on Instagram, which Facebook owns, Facebook vice president and general counsel Colin Stretch conceded that “gets you to a little less than 150 million” people. 

It’s a far cry from company founder Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that it would be “crazy” to think that Russian trolls on Facebook had any election impact. And it was the latest revision from Facebook.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-now-says-russian-disinfo-reached-150-million-americans

Edited November 2, 2017 by Jacque67

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So Zuckerberg didn't talk to US legislators today, just Colin Stretch ...

remember 5 years ago?

 

Nice t-shirt!

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Federal lawmakers on Wednesday released samples of 3,000 Facebook ads purchased by Russian operatives during the 2016 presidential campaign. The ads conveyed the wide range of influence Russian-linked groups tried to enact on Americans – but one set of ads in particular hit close to home. 

Last year, two Russian Facebook pages organized dueling rallies in front of the Islamic Da’wah Center of Houston, according to information released by U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican.

Heart of Texas, a Russian-controlled Facebook group that promoted Texas secession, leaned into an image of the state as a land of guns and barbecue and amassed hundreds of thousands of followers. One of their ads on Facebook announced a noon rally on May 21, 2016 to “Stop Islamification of Texas.”

A separate Russian-sponsored group, United Muslims of America, advertised a “Save Islamic Knowledge” rally for the same place and time. 

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On that day, protesters organized by the two groups showed up on Travis Street in downtown Houston, a scene that appeared on its face to be a protest and a counterprotest. Interactions between the two groups eventually escalated into confrontation and verbal attacks.

Burr, the committee's chairman, unveiled the ads at a hearing Wednesday morning and said Russians managed to pit Texans against each other for the bargain price of $200.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-page-organized-protest-texas-different-russian-page-l/

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http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/01/adam-schiff-drops-chilling-trump-truth-bomb-russia-collusion-longer-doubt.html

 

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Just scream! Somebody might hear you

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Trump: "This is FAKE news!!!"

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https://www.apnews.com/3bca5267d4544508bb523fa0db462cb2

 

Russia hackers had targets worldwide, beyond US election.

 

hmm...

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6 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

https://www.apnews.com/3bca5267d4544508bb523fa0db462cb2

 

Russia hackers had targets worldwide, beyond US election.

 

hmm...

Just as US hackers, and Israeli and Chinese hackers have worldwide targets.  Let's not forget about the hackers from the DPRK.

 

 

By the way, no matter how the DNC spins this, more than half the ads the Russians purchased were after the election.  How do the Dems explain this?  Regardless, yes, let's get all political ads off these stupid social media platforms regardless of the source of the ad revenue.

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Ads on FB?  Since when did FB have ads?

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2 minutes ago, IDWAF said:

Ads on FB?  Since when did FB have ads?

Sorry, using "ads" to refer to political stories, but since apparently sources have to pay FB to post these, then maybe they are in fact ads.

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I thought intelligent people knew that most of the garbage on facebook were scams or just #######.

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Just now, Neonred said:

I thought intelligent people knew that most of the garbage on facebook were scams or just #######.

I agree, but of course the elite leadership of the DNC think we are all idiot Gruberites.

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if people decide how to vote based on what they see on facebook, maybe the problem is we've set the bar too low for voting.