MasterJaguar01
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ORIGINAL: MasterJaguar01 massive Russian effort in 2016 You are insane. Still waiting on ONE specific example of that, but you can't handle that. it's too hard. You can mouth your memorized cult chants, but you lack any ability beyond that. Like shooting fish in a barrel Let's start with 7 of the thousands of specific Russian ads: https://www.wxii12.com/article/7-russia-linked-facebook-ads-used-d/13135402 Now let's move on https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41812369 Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the past two years. The social networking site said about 80,000 posts were produced before and after the 2016 presidential election. Most of the posts focused on divisive social and political messages. https://time.com/5565991/russia-influence-2016-election/ From this one... When Russia set out to interfere with the 2016 election, it went all out. Over the course of the election, a wide-ranging group of Russians probed state voter databases for insecurities; hacked the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee; tried to hack the campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio and the Republican National Committee; released politically damaging information on the internet; spread propaganda on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram; staged rallies in Florida and Pennsylvania; set up meetings with members of the Trump campaign and its associates; and floated a business proposition for a skyscraper in Moscow to the Trump Organization. The goal, as determined by the U.S. intelligence community and backed up by evidence gathered by Special Counsel Robert Mueller: To damage the Clinton campaign, boost Trump’s chances and sow distrust in American democracy overall. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/russian-propaganda-group-purchased-ads-facebook-2016-election-heres-means Why it’s important In January, the U.S. intelligence community concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin led a campaign to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Paid trolls — social media users who were compensated to deliberately post controversial content — and the social media accounts of the pro-Kremlin television network RT were part of this effort, according to their report. What Facebook found is “one small piece of this larger, consistent, Russian effort,” John Sipher, a former CIA agent who ran the agency’s Russia program for three years, told the NewsHour. “This is a big deal because I think it’s more evidence of a coordinated Russian attack against our system,” Sipher said. And for those who suggest that $100,000 in ads is not much: “This is just one troll farm that Facebook has proven” was Russian, Sipher said. “I’m sure there’s all kinds of other stuff that hasn’t been picked up on yet.” In addition to the ad buying, an investigation published late Thursday by The New York Times, with research from the cybersecurity company FireEye, detailed other ways that suspected Russian trolls disseminated false and hacked information. Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told the Washington Post that Facebook’s disclosure is a “profound warning to us and others about future elections.” A question left to answer, he said, is whether any of the pro-Russian trolls coordinated with President Trump’s 2016 campaign team. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49987657 https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/06/facebook-ads-russia-linked-accounts-242401 https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/ https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/26/media/facebook-russia-ads/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin/index.html Love this one... Nice graphs https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news/study-confirms-influence-russian-internet-trolls-2016-election By analyzing betting market data for the 2016 election, researchers determined that market odds favoring Republicans hit their low point on Russian holidays—when trolls were shown to be less active—while odds favoring Democrats peaked at the same time. This empirical measurement backs the inference that Russian election interference hurt Democrats’ chance of winning. https://mashable.com/article/facebook-ads-russian From this one... Sen. Mark Warner also revealed some ads, including one of Hillary Clinton as the devil boxing Jesus. Oh, two more Russian Facebook ads https://x.com/donie/status/925456668481253384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E925456668481253384%7Ctwgr%5E1814b688d9426dfa8f41211411c5e653cdf0b0b7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Ffacebook-ads-russian https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/facebook-says-fake-russian-accounts-bought-10000-.html Probably another 100 URLS Everyone knows about the huge Russian effort in 2016 except you. I gave you the magnitude, the info on the IRA, the scope, the purpose. I gave you MANY specific ads and posts. There is a boatload more.
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