Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests
by dirheist on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:55PM
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I don't. If it's virtually impossible to distinguish a Russian troll farm page from a traditional conservative/radical leftist from a home grown, private individual, then there is no problem. The impact Russian troll farms have had on the US social fabric is widely overestimated, the real harm to the social fabric is increased politicization.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests
by 543g43g43 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @03:00PM
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>Russian troll farms .... increased politicization.
The two are linked. Those who wish to see Western culture fail, just want us at each others' throats.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kvvz3/russian-facebook-trol...
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversatio...
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests
by keewee7 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @09:24PM
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>It was of the order of $100,000
That was just their advertising budget. It doesn't include their hundreds of thousands of sockpuppet accounts operated by their clickfarms.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests
by propogandist on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:26AM
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The narrative about Russia using FB to influence elections was pushed by the Clinton campaign. No one wanted to cover it was $100K as that compromised the narrative. They pushed that propaganda for 4 years, denying the election. Then, it became virtually illegal to talk about illegitime elections.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests
by NLPlatypus on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:19PM
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That’s $100k for ads. I remember seeing one of the anti-Clinton image memes in one of the Senate reports on the SandersForPresident forum. Makes me sick that Russian manipulators were there, too.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests
by propogandist on Sunday December 04, 2022 @11:02AM
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$100K ads is nothing. It is an ad budget that will get exhausted in few days with broad targeting parameters. The entire issue was a nothing burger, fabricated by one side to push their agenda.
I am 100% sure that Russian state-sponsored trolls are largely responsible for the current state of the "culture war".
Do you remember when Facebook reported how much Russian state actors had spent on disinformation spread on that platform during the Trump presidential campaign? It was of the order of $100,000. Pocket change, to turn the brains of an entire nation into argumentative mush.