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Why are they in this format? They look like my grandma took a screenshot, pasted the image in a Word document and then printed it
Does 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.
> 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…
Probably the same ignorance that leads all port scans from Russian VPNs to be labeled as RUSSIAN HAX. Some were paid for is rubles but anyone can do that. Here is the first image I clicked on at random. What is this evidence of? https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/russian-ads/2015-Q2...
What do you think that specific image disproves?
> 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…
Q3-2017 does seem a little late for influencing the 2016 election.
Once upon a time I thought HN was:
A) Well-informed, and
B) Not a place for political discussion.
Honestly if you can’t find fact from fiction in news articles, just read the damn source documents. You’d probably find it fascinating, instead of just something to dismiss as a bunch of politically-motivated time-wasting.
I know this comment is against the guidelines, but so is nearly every single comment on this story.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably the same ignorance that leads all port scans from Russian VPNs to be labeled as RUSSIAN HAX. Some were paid for is rubles but anyone can do that. Here is the first image I clicked on at random. What is this evidence of? https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/russian-ads/2015-Q2...
Looks like they're trying to get more subscribers for a group controlled by the Russian government, so that they can start propagandizing. What do you think that specific image disproves?
The complete and utter intentional lack of understanding of the current Russian influence campaign, the ongoing congressional investigations, and the special council investigation in this thread is appalling. Once upon a time I thought HN was: A) Well-informed, and B) Not a place for political discussion. Honestly if you can’t find fact from fiction in news articles, just read the damn source documents. You’d probabl…
I say this because you talk as if it's easy to separate fact from fiction these days. If you think it's easy, then I think there are some very important things you're missing.
I’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.
The ads were mostly for Facebook groups. Once those groups had a substantial subscribership, the Russians were able to push out far more vitriolic propaganda without having to pay for the audience. The ads are just the tip of the iceberg.
That trick is as old as the Church that invented it for the obvious purpose.
That's like "election meddling" repeated on CNN 10 times per day just to convince people "it was something but we will not tell you what".
UPDATE: here is the story of the same trick used while ago: https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/meet-guy-sims-fitch-a-fake-w...
The power to disseminate information (or disinformation) is not one that should be taken lightly. It seems that most of the human race was deployed to production with a pretty critical RCE vulnerability, and the patches available (education in its various forms) do not appear to be sufficient to protect the whole system from corruption.