radical right
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Doing so was illegal. You have a smoking gun of interference with the 2016 election.
Facebook uncovers "Russia"-funded misinformation campaign
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Doing so was illegal. You have a smoking gun of interference with the 2016 election.
They did not buy just one add, and Facebook is just the tip of the iceberg.
tinydancer
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Buying ads vs funding groups in Syria to whack the leader of the country? Funding the coup in the Ukraine? Ditto Libya and Egypt? The list is quite long. Goes back many a year.
Who is the hostile ******* nation?
tinydancer
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What are the ads? I haven't seen anyone put them up yet.
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ada on Facebook, is a small part of K-Kleptocracy war on Democracy , and Free world
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I read somewhere that Facebook was refusing to release them over its PRIVACY policies. It will probably take a while before they get leaked or published in one of the investigative reports. The Facebook operation was a recon and fishing expedition for bigger operations.
Are you familiar with the Ogino St. Petersburg troll farm tiny? It is well worth knowing about that operation for an understanding of this topic. It is key.
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I suspect tinydancer posts from there.
Litwin
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a great story, brave girl Lyudmila Savchuk won her case against Olgino troll-house .
"This non-descript office building in Moscow is where the Kremlin houses its army of thousands of internet trolls. They have become infamous over the last year; spamming the World Wide Web with lies, misinformation and propaganda. But this part of the Kremlin's hybrid warfare aginast Ukraine and the West at large has been exposed by a Russian journalist. Lyudmila Savchuk calls it a troll factory and says she had spent two months there as an employee documenting the process of creating a wave of pro-Kremlin propaganda. "They get work specifications. There are several main topics including Ukraine, USA and the EU - in general all main topics which are on the agenda - and also Russian opposition. Main opposition figures are regularly insulted and discredited on the Internet." According to Savchuk, she and her fellow colleagues worked under tight control and signed a non-disclosure agreement. She also says the comments were made not only in Russian but in several other languages across different platforms."
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"By Andrey Soshnikov, BBC Russian Service
The Internet Research Agency is one of the many names used by a media conglomerate known informally as the "Russian troll factory".
The wider operation is linked to Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a friend of President Vladimir Putin since the 1990s.
His nickname is "Putin's cook" since he was actually a cook, whose food was admired by the president.
The business has never publicly been declared but is thought to be building pro-Kremlin public opinion via a big number of fake internet identities. Such activity is sometimes known as astro-turfing or internet sock-puppeting.
Russian trolls also engage in cyberbullying and harassing people with democratic views on the internet.
Although Mr Prigozhin has never acknowledged his involvement, about a dozen whistleblowers from the "troll factory" have talked to the media.
At least one popular pro-Trump, anti-Clinton Facebook community called Secured Borders was managed from the operation, according a report by RBC magazine.
Secured Borders boasted 140,000 subscribers. One of its posts, published at the height of the election campaign and heavily advertised on Facebook, reached four million people on the social network. It was "liked" more than 300,000 times and shared more than 80,000 times.
The Secured Borders community has since been deleted."
The Internet Research Agency is one of the many names used by a media conglomerate known informally as the "Russian troll factory".
The wider operation is linked to Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a friend of President Vladimir Putin since the 1990s.
His nickname is "Putin's cook" since he was actually a cook, whose food was admired by the president.
The business has never publicly been declared but is thought to be building pro-Kremlin public opinion via a big number of fake internet identities. Such activity is sometimes known as astro-turfing or internet sock-puppeting.
Russian trolls also engage in cyberbullying and harassing people with democratic views on the internet.
Although Mr Prigozhin has never acknowledged his involvement, about a dozen whistleblowers from the "troll factory" have talked to the media.
At least one popular pro-Trump, anti-Clinton Facebook community called Secured Borders was managed from the operation, according a report by RBC magazine.
Secured Borders boasted 140,000 subscribers. One of its posts, published at the height of the election campaign and heavily advertised on Facebook, reached four million people on the social network. It was "liked" more than 300,000 times and shared more than 80,000 times.
The Secured Borders community has since been deleted."
radical right
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That was before facebook admitted they took Russian money. What they did was illegal, and their only hope is to cooperate.
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Yeah....you guys caught them.....100,000 dollars...over 2 years....
Hilary spent 1.2 billion dollars on her campaign......
I can see how nimrods like you can't see the pointlessness of this revelation about Russia...
Hillary Clinton breaks President Obama’s 2012 spending record with $1.2 billion campaign
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Hilary spent 1.2 Billion Dollars on her campaign.....
do you really think 100,000 dollars over a two year period is a problem...?
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Hmmmm...from your original post....you quoted they spent a grand total of 100,000 dollars over 2 years.......can you compare that to the 1.2 billion dollars hilary spent to lose to Trump?
Or how does that compare to the 145 million dollars hilary got from Putin?
And no official has been able to present one iota of evidence either. You would think that after months and months of "investigations" they would be able to present something. So far all that has been shown is the provably false reporting from the various msm outlets.
Not too compelling a case to hang your hat on.
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And how is the post stupid? It's taken a news story, a real news story, about something that isn't fake.
Really, if the only thought through your brain is "Maybe because the post is so stupid that laughter is all it deserves." then I might find a quote from Mr T
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Actually it works really well. It's not a 100% cert because there are plenty of other factors involved.
The actual amounts of money spent on the election will be unknown. This is part of the problem. Trump spent X amount of money. The Republicans spend X amount of money, but more money than that was spent on the Republican campaign.
For example, the Koch brothers could have spend lots of money on campaigns, like the campaign to make sure the Supreme Court didn't get a Democrat appointed judge. Now, none of this money will be seen as campaign financing, therefore people won't see it as having been spent on the election, but could potentially have tipped millions of votes.
Or we could just look at the simple stuff and forget reality.
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