Dems release zip files of Russian ads placed on Facebook

[spike91nz]

Source: Democratic Intelligence House Gov.

Looks like they have released the zip files of the ads Russia flooded into the election.

https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/facebook-ads/social-media-advertisements.htm

Read more: https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/facebook-ads/social-media-advertisements.htm

---

enjoy

[MontanaMama]

1. Downloading them now...

The files are huge - be patient.

[barbtries]

3. my zip manager wouldn't open them.

do i have to save first? maybe i should wait til i'm off work...

[MontanaMama]

4. I had to save the file first

then I was able to unzip. I'm at work...only had time to look at a few things but I must say it is unsettling to see how specifically certain demographics were targeted.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Fans of Sean Hannity, Black Lives Matter among targets of Russian influence campaign

Retweeted by RogueAltGov: https://twitter.com/RogueAltGov

JUST IN: Thousands of ads created by Kremlin-backed organization that targeted American voters on Facebook and Instagram around the 2016 presidential election have been released by Democrats on House Intel Cmte.

Link to tweet

Fans of Sean Hannity, Black Lives Matter among targets of Russian influence campaign

The ads highlight how Russia's efforts focused on divisive cultural issues

by Brandy Zadrozny, Ben Popken, Ben Collins and Andrew W. Lehren / May.10.2018 / 10:00 AM ET

Russian propaganda efforts used ads on Facebook and Instagram to push divisive messages to fans of a variety of pages including Black Lives Matter and Fox News host Sean Hannity, according to a new batch of sponsored posts released on Thursday.

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee just released thousands of divisive ads created by the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed organization that targeted American voters on Facebook and Instagram around the 2016 presidential election. ... Facebook, which also owns Instagram, received nearly $100,000 from the Russia-funded troll farm to run the 3,000 ads from 2015 to 2017, according to an NBC News analysis of the release.

The ads provide a deeper understanding of Russia’s use of social media to spread propaganda on divisive topics, which included pushing anti-immigrant messages to fans of specific Fox News personalities such as Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, and buying batches of ads immediately after a mass shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Some of the most divisive ads capitalized on the political movement Black Lives Matter and hot button political issues including immigration, gun control, the religion of Islam, and LGBT-centric topics. The ads also promoted events organized by Americans who were unaware their political rallies and protests were being fueled by a Russian disinformation campaign.
....

NBC News' Mike Memoli contributed to this story.

[gay texan]

5. They are trying to push us to civil war

me thinks....

[Duppers]

6. They're doing a good job.