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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere are the Kremlin-backed Facebook ads designed to foment discord in US
Here are the Kremlin-backed Facebook ads designed to foment discord in USAds bash Clinton before election and cap on Trump after he won the presidency.
DAVID KRAVETS - Ars Technica 11/1/2017, 3:56 PM
(NOT the Onion!)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/here-are-the-kremlin-backed-facebook-ads-designed-to-foment-discord-in-us/
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Here are the Kremlin-backed Facebook ads designed to foment discord in US (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Nov 2017
OP
Like-farming. It's the litmus test that determines the truly gullible on social media.
Tommy_Carcetti
Nov 2017
#1
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,145 posts)1. Like-farming. It's the litmus test that determines the truly gullible on social media.
You know, like the people who "Like and Share" the page for "Disney World" (that was just started the day before and has nothing else to do with Disney World) because they think they are entering into a contest for a free Disney World vacation simply by liking their page.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. Hilariously scary.
It's appalling that we have a significant population who are that dumb.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)5. They want to believe the lies and slander
so they do.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)3. And here are more:
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)4. The evangelicals must have swallowed this one hook, line and sinker.
GeezUS, quite the piece of propoganda.
msongs
(67,347 posts)6. one can hear similar at the local baptists church on any sunday nt
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)7. No doubt about that
at all.