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IRA = Internet Research Agency for those confused by the title, i.e. the russian "troll" company.
I find amusing the "troll" label applied to it. Trolling in my books is someone taking the piss out of someone else or a situation. We're talking about far greater reach here with devastating impacts.
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Yes, it is likely there are hundreds of thousands of accounts, not just a few dozen. Over time, we'll see. Twitter and all the rest have also come out with "it was just a few accounts, see, we've even gone and deleted them". But it's not that few. Edit: Also, those few accounts pack a punch. > 1.08 million users followed at least one of the Facebook Pages, and 493,000 users followed at least one of the Instagram acco…
Is there any specific reason you said hundreds of thousands of accounts, and not tens of thousands, millions, or dozens?
> Facebook has removed 70 Facebook accounts, 138 Facebook Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by the Russian government-connected troll farm and election interference squad the Internet Research Agency This looks like a fairly small amount of accounts.
Small # of accounts, but massive amounts of followers/viewers. Kylie Jenner has a "fairly small amount of accounts" (ie one ) on Twitter, but a single tweet can send a company's stock into the red[0]. 0. http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/22/technology/snapchat-update-k...
> Facebook has removed 70 Facebook accounts, 138 Facebook Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by the Russian government-connected troll farm and election interference squad the Internet Research Agency This looks like a fairly small amount of accounts.
Small # of accounts, but massive amounts of followers/viewers. Kylie Jenner has a "fairly small amount of accounts" (ie one ) on Twitter, but a single tweet can send a company's stock into the red[0]. 0. http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/22/technology/snapchat-update-k...
They most certainly arent anywhere near Kylie Jenner level so Im not sure what that has to do with this.
But I guess no one involved (media, FB) wants this story to be any less newsworthy so I doubt we'll ever have an answer...
Hmm, I guess I come from an older generation where mention of the "IRA" was a whole different genre of terrorism...
From the provided sample content it appears to be rather harmless. Reminds me of buzz feed style posts.
Much of it seems to more be designed to sew discord between the parties than to directly influence the election. Mission accomplished I guess.
I think this is a distraction maneuver by Facebook to direct away attention from the latest events.
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Much of it seems to more be designed to sew discord between the parties than to directly influence the election. Mission accomplished I guess.
I don’t know if you looked at the samples or not, but out of 6 samples only 2 can be considered remotely political. Sure, one uses a photo of Putin with a toast “let’s drink for politics”. At the stretch we could consider every “thanks Obama” meme a political one. I think this is a distraction maneuver by Facebook to direct away attention from the latest events.