All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election

Re:All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during ... by RIMR on Friday May 11, 2018 @06:49PM (#17051282)

Yeah, the ads were just the content they paid for. This doesn't take into account all the sockpuppet accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit that were designed to swing conversations in the direction they wanted them to go.

Also, link aggregator sites (like our very own HN) are susceptible to vote manipulation, which can promote the content the attackers want, and demote the content they don't want.

These ads were just to rope people in. You can see that "Black Matters" has 200k+ members. Those are people who are now getting information directly from the Kremlin on their feeds now.

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Re:All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during ... by stevenwoo on Saturday May 12, 2018 @02:27AM (#17052761)

Youtube was pretty big as well, and Google ads were also utilized IIRC. The videos from the people from outside the US pretending to be Americans is a pretty sad impersonation unless one is kind of in a bubble looking for reinforcement of certain stereotypes/views.

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Re:All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during ... by the_cat_kittles on Friday May 11, 2018 @07:08PM (#17051362)

i cannot believe we still havent seen a major news story on reddit. the night and day takeover of the_donald was very obvious to me. i wish someone would write an in depth piece on the nature, scale and timeline of the operation there.

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Re:All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during ... by stevenwoo on Saturday May 12, 2018 @02:29AM (#17052768)

Not a major news source but online sources already broke it and reddit responded to those reports a year after the election.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/reddit-check-out-our-russian-t...

https://www.inquisitr.com/4790689/reddits-the_donald-was-one...

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