A Ben Wittes tick, tick, BOOM

[octoberlib]

Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election


Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the U.S. presidential election to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings.

Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said.

A small portion of the ads, which began in the summer of 2015, directly named Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, the people said. Most of the ads focused on pumping politically divisive issues such as gun rights and immigration fears, as well as gay rights and racial discrimination.


“I get the fact that the Russian intel services could figure out how to manipulate and use the bots. Whether they could know how to target states and levels of voters that the Democrats weren’t even aware really raises some questions. I think that’s a worthwhile area of inquiry,” Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said during a May airing of the podcast Pod Save America. “How did they know to go to that level of detail in those kinds of jurisdictions?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facebook-says-it-sold-political-ads-to-russian-company-during-2016-election/2017/09/06/32f01fd2-931e-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.aad84c823977

[octoberlib]

1. I bet they were working with Cambridge Analytica and Brad Parscale,

Trumps digital team. I hope they all end up in jail.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Rykov? nt

[octoberlib]

3. That's what I was thinking.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. The dude likes to brag openly on Facebook about it.

I'm sure he got the attention of intelligence sources.

[bdtrppr6]

4. How did they know to go to that level of detail in those kinds of jurisdictions?

By looking at the users of Facebook and their locations. I don't even use FB but it's not rocket science to figure out if you want to apply directed ads at dumbshits spouting the bullshit they do, all you have to do is go through a small number of posts to know the areas to target. Most of the posts are very telling on a user's stance politically, whether they are "political" or not.

The only people who aren't aware of the problems with our country are the ones who don't actually live in it. You know, politicians, big media types(I don't include local news-that's a total joke), preachers, etc. The Dem leadership really don't know their asses from holes in the ground as far as who they actually represent. It would take little effort from a motivated group of Russian/Amerikan trolls to fuck around enough and stir up shit with all the small people- bigots in the midwest, south and everywhere else, which then stirs up the resistance and fight from the libs on the coasts and pockets through the country. Voila, civil war.

Goddess help us all.

[Achilleaze]

5. republicans and russians pissing all over America & democracy

republicans freaking stole the election from the American people by teaming up with the freaking evil-empire money-mobster mind wankers.

De-freaking-plorable.

For the sake of America and American democracy, republican TreasonWeasels must be prosecuted and incarcerated.