On Russia, Facebook Sends a Message It Wishes It Hadn’t

Re:On Russia, Facebook Sends a Message It Wishes It Hadn’t by panarky on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:51PM (#16422865)

Because it's misdirection to focus on the timing of ad spend, when the bulk of the Russian influence operation was organic social not paid ads.

The one entity in all of this who knows whether Russia's disinformation campaign is working is Russia itself.

So if Russia is investing even more in spreading disinformation on Facebook after the election, isn't that pretty good evidence that their campaigns are working?

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Re:On Russia, Facebook Sends a Message It Wishes It Hadn’t by asabjorn on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:11PM (#16423089)

I am not sure I understand. How does someone using a different mechanism to spread disinformation post election indicate success of their pre election mechanisms for spreading disinformation? Both are problems and need fixing, but only pre election disinformation is relevant to the election result.

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