These "suspicious" advertisers predominantly targeted voters in swing states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. She also found that white voters received 87 percent of all immigration ads.https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/ …
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She found that the advertisers that were not required to file any disclaimers or disclosures with the FEC ran 4 times as many of these divisive ads as advertisers that did have to file with the FEC:https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/ …
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This research makes a strong case for regulation of digital political ads. Yes, the Russian trolls were running divisive, misleading ads without being detected, but...so lots of other groups we know nothing abouthttps://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/ …
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typo. that last tweet should read "so *were* lots of other groups we know nothing about."
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Maybe if the "journalists" were doing their jobs and educating the public they wouldn't be so easy to manipulation. Maybe if journalists displayed scepticism they would teach it unconsciously to the public
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And never forget that
#Facebook early big investors were Russian oligarchs close to Putin. So, its leadership should know how Russian operate.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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And most of the ads were were targeting voters in swing states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Now look how close the results were in these states. Scary:pic.twitter.com/p9lpSroTXr
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It's believable in these close states that the votes were ACTUALLY changed, no more than the difference was. They had people in the states who could have done it.
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Now if that doesn’t tell you something!
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