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All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
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Re: All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
#102I 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?
They got gullible people to show up, and did all the organizing on Facebook from outside the country, sometimes for both sides of an issue /controversy they manufactured.
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-trolls-senate-intellig...
Re: All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes.. People showed up and got fighty. And this is a tiny blip compared to hacking into the DNC's email servers. I see a lot of these ads are stupid and people totally think that was all there was. The ads were the part of the iceberg you can see.
Yeah, the ads were just the content they paid for. This doesn't take into account all the sockpuppet accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit that were designed to swing conversations in the direction they wanted them to go. Also, link aggregator sites (like our very own HN) are susceptible to vote manipulation, which can promote the content the attackers want, and demote the content they don't want. These ads were j…
Youtube was pretty big as well, and Google ads were also utilized IIRC. The videos from the people from outside the US pretending to be Americans is a pretty sad impersonation unless one is kind of in a bubble looking for reinforcement of certain stereotypes/views.
Re: All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, the ads were just the content they paid for. This doesn't take into account all the sockpuppet accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit that were designed to swing conversations in the direction they wanted them to go. Also, link aggregator sites (like our very own HN) are susceptible to vote manipulation, which can promote the content the attackers want, and demote the content they don't want. These ads were j…
i cannot believe we still havent seen a major news story on reddit. the night and day takeover of the_donald was very obvious to me. i wish someone would write an in depth piece on the nature, scale and timeline of the operation there.
Not a major news source but online sources already broke it and reddit responded to those reports a year after the election.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/reddit-check-out-our-russian-t...
https://www.inquisitr.com/4790689/reddits-the_donald-was-one...
Re: All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
#105This is really a pretty fascinating example of psyops in the wild. Propaganda for both "tribes" assembled in opposition over various issues in order to sow more division between them. Imagery clearly designed to influence with emotion, twisting the dials of fear, anger and pride in the audience. The power to disseminate information (or disinformation) is not one that should be taken lightly. It seems that most of the…
how are these any different than the standard appeal to emotion arguments that groups make in good faith? e.g., why is an ad trying to raise awareness about black lives matter from russia any different than an ad trying to raise awareness about black lives matter from black lives matter? > The power to disseminate information (or disinformation) is not one that should be taken lightly. curious to know if you believe…
Well, you need to consider the subtext as well, which can be very different from what you expect. e.g. that nice image of a woman in a Stars and Stripes hijab talking to Hillary Clinton with a pro-Hillary tagline? Targeted specifically at users believed to be anti-Islamic.
The pictures don’t tell you the whole story and shouldn’t be taken at face value.
Re: All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
#106Is there any indication of any sort that this content isn't just random ads? Do I have to just take your word for it?
slipperymate posted the direct link to the official release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051425
Re: All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
#107This is really a pretty fascinating example of psyops in the wild. Propaganda for both "tribes" assembled in opposition over various issues in order to sow more division between them. Imagery clearly designed to influence with emotion, twisting the dials of fear, anger and pride in the audience. The power to disseminate information (or disinformation) is not one that should be taken lightly. It seems that most of the…
Pretty much the same Fox News and CNN do.
Think about it.
Re: All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
#108Having seen my fair share of vitriolic content during the past election cycle, most of these images honestly seem quiet tame.
I agree, if they control all these pages they were advertising as then it'd be much more interesting to see what they were showing the people who responded to these ads and liked their pages. A lot of them look like pages designed to radicalise .
It'd also be interesting to see what the official campaigns targeted advertising looked like, including that of related arms length groups that presumably do the dirty work.
Re: All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
#109Why were Russians doing ads to support democratic cause? I thought it was strongly believed that they wanted Trump to win. Doing some divisive thing to get some sort of twisted outcome feels like far out conspiracy. That bring me to question: how much confidence do we have these are Russian state sponsored ad?
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#110Jesus, you'd think the people on here making comments got online yesterday. If this "russian' signal actually made any difference in all the noise 4ch are the new gods and must be locked up in Gitmo before they take over the world. Stop believing everything you seen on MSNBC you morons! Hackers my ass..