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Re:Facebook to Turn Over Russian-Linked Ads to Congress by glomic on Thursday September 21, 2017 @04:52PM (#15307239)
Ads so pervasive that virtually nobody had seen them until now.
Re:Facebook to Turn Over Russian-Linked Ads to Congress by orf on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:05PM (#15307337)
If by nobody you mean nobody outside the specific, targeted people Russia paid Facebook to show them to, sure. There are a lot of examples of them on the internet, but funnily enough only Facebook has the whole lot.
Re:Facebook to Turn Over Russian-Linked Ads to Congress by jessaustin on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:07PM (#15307356)
The reason none of us have seen them, could be that they were only targeted at the gullible dumbasses who could possibly vote for Trump? Maybe that was a special target group? Maybe it's the same group that gets ad-targeted for e.g. hemorrhoid cream and mobile home skirting?

Frankly, given the revealed political preferences of FB executives, I'm pretty skeptical of any fruit from this tree.

Re:Facebook to Turn Over Russian-Linked Ads to Congress by slamdance on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:33AM (#15311975)
and THIS is the attitude that gave us Trump.

/full disclosure: I voted for Johnson.

Re:Facebook to Turn Over Russian-Linked Ads to Congress by jessaustin on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:18PM (#15343497)
Did that really need an /s? But yes, I agree.
Re:Facebook to Turn Over Russian-Linked Ads to Congress by mkempe on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:29PM (#15308453)
The incredibly effective Russian ads that cost $100k. As opposed to the nearly $2 billion spent by the candidates.