New data shows that Russian propaganda may have been shared billions of times on Facebook
by Natasha Bertrand at Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/reach-of-russian-facebook-propaganda-content-2017-10
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These are the only six pages, so far, that Facebook has acknowledged have ties to Russia. The company shut down 470 pages linked to Russia's shadowy Internet Research Agency early last month.
Albright used Facebook's own analytics tool, CrowdTangle, to assess the data, and downloaded the last 500 posts each account shared before being shut down. He also made public the full text of the posts, which were shared over 340 million times between the six accounts.
The other 464 accounts shut down by Facebook have not yet been made public. But if and when they are, an analysis of their combined posts will likely reveal that their content was shared an estimated billions of times during the election, based on Albright's findings.
Facebook has been under pressure to release the ads purchased by the 470 Russia-linked accounts the company shut down last month. But Albright's data shows that more Facebook users "interacted" with the content published by these six accounts — in other words, "liked," shared, or commented on a post — than were exposed to the ads alone.
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