Fakebook: A tool exploring the 2016 U.S. election Facebook ads bought by Russia

Re:Fakebook: A tool exploring the 2016 U.S. election Faceboo... by stickfigure on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:30PM (#17544266)

I'm taking a wild guess here: The ads look like they were intended to drive traffic to pages, which would be the real 'meat' of the campaign. The ads themselves aren't very interesting.

Also, the image data is missing. A lot of these are non-sequiturs without the picture.

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Re:Fakebook: A tool exploring the 2016 U.S. election Faceboo... by moogleii on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:32PM (#17544291)

It's just terrible UX. The images show if you hover over the camera icon (assuming something else isn't broken for you). E.g. the car example is a picture of the General Lee (or something similar with the Confederate flag on top of it).

The south rising again is a giant confederate flag. Etc.

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Re:Fakebook: A tool exploring the 2016 U.S. election Faceboo... by AlfeG on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:24AM (#17547711)

Most of the ads has around 10-20 impressions.

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