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FB vice president of ads speaks out on Russian trolling

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  • FB vice president of ads speaks out on Russian trolling

    "The main goal of the Russian propaganda and misinformation effort is to divide America by using our institutions, like free speech and social media, against us. It has stoked fear and hatred amongst [sic] Americans," he wrote on the social site.

    "It is working incredibly well. We are quite divided as a nation," he added.

    Facebook's Goldman stated that sowing chaos, not electing Trump, was Russia's primary intent in infiltrating American social media networks.

    "Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to effect the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election. I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal," he wrote on Twitter.

    To prove his point, he referenced an anti-Islam protest in Houston in November 2017. Russian trolls were later shown to have organized both sides of the protest.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/17/face...divide-us.html
    Spin, libs, spin!!!
    Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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    Other points of interest:

    Source: Facebook

    • 44% of total ad impressions (number of times ads were displayed) were before the US election on November 8, 2016; 56% were after the election. [Emphasis mine. -MM]
    • Roughly 25% of the ads were never shown to anyone. That’s because advertising auctions are designed so that ads reach people based on relevance, and certain ads may not reach anyone as a result.

    https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/10...d-to-congress/

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    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
    Than a fool in the eyes of God


    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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    • #3
      so what he is saying is that facebook knew about these attempts and took their money anyway.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by demi-conservative View Post
        Spin, libs, spin!!!
        This is not the documented conclusion of the FBI.
        Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
        Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
        But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

        go with the flow the river knows . . .

        Frank

        I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
          This is not the documented conclusion of the FBI.
          At this point the FBI is being investigated themselves.

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          • #6
            Dollars spent on US Election.jpg

            This is what leftists are complaining about.
            “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.” - C.S. Lewis

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