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All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
The goal was to sow division, disrupt the entire process, and in the chaos their preferred candidate could thrive.
I think more division, disruption, and chaos was caused by the people freaking out over Russian influence than by the actual Russian influence.
Good thing that the media and their multiple layers of fact-checkers and editors didn't fall for the Russian's evil plan. They have learned a lot since the 30's and the Cold War.
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#23All of these ads shared one thing in common... They appealed to ignorance and the uneducated across every demographic, and it worked.
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#24Does anybody have a source that isn't a gore site?
With that said: Do not visit the root domain if you don't like seeing lots of mutilated dead people.
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#25I’m sincerely at a loss for how most/many of these could have influenced the election. Part of me think that Congress is making mistakes and Putin is scrolling through these, laughing hysterically that we actually think he’d pay for this nonsense.
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#26> These are images of the Facebook ads the Russians purchased to try and alter the 2016 U.S. Election. These were released from Congress And what does congress base this on? Looking through a bunch, they don't seem to favor either Hillary or Donald... is it supposed to prove that the elections weren't tampered with? Or am I missing something? Edit: managed to find one! Against Donald: https://www.documentingreality.c…
The goal was to sow division, disrupt the entire process, and in the chaos their preferred candidate could thrive.
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#27Would be great if FB released the audience targeting data associated with these images. Context and audience matters when it comes to advertising.
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#28I see a bunch of the pictures they advertised organized events. How did that work if these ads and supposedly pages were run by Russians? Were those events real? Who showed up? Who organized the protest on the ground?
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-thirteen-r...
> The Russians also recruited and paid real Americans to engage in political activities, promote political campaigns, and stage political rallies. The defendants and their co-conspirators pretended to be grassroots activists. According to the indictment, the Americans did not know that they were communicating with Russians.
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#29That was anti-climatic. How exactly did these ads sway the election? In fact, many of them are pro-gay and have liberal idea.
Re: All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think more division, disruption, and chaos was caused by the people freaking out over Russian influence than by the actual Russian influence.
Good thing that the media and their multiple layers of fact-checkers and editors didn't fall for the Russian's evil plan. They have learned a lot since the 30's and the Cold War.
> multiple layers of fact-checkers
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. One of the worst things to come from modern media is that editors do not fact check because they want to break the story before anyone else and fact checking takes time.
This has lead to tons of quiet retractions.