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    issie lapowsky‏Verified account @issielapowsky 16 Apr 2018

    A researcher with lots of foresight scraped 5 million political ads on Facebook during 6 weeks before the 2016 election. She found that half of the advertisers had absolutely no federal records or online footprint. Of that half, 1 in 6 were Russian trolls.https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/ …

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      2. issie lapowsky‏Verified account @issielapowsky 16 Apr 2018

        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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      3. issie lapowsky‏Verified account @issielapowsky 16 Apr 2018

        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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      4. issie lapowsky‏Verified account @issielapowsky 16 Apr 2018

        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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      5. issie lapowsky‏Verified account @issielapowsky 16 Apr 2018

        typo. that last tweet should read "so *were* lots of other groups we know nothing about."

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      1. shit just got real‏ @jailingtrump 16 Apr 2018
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      1. #mediabros are toxic #freeAssange‏ @ttruthtweet 16 Apr 2018
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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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      1. VingRoss‏ @ross_ving 16 Apr 2018
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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.

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      2. Jonas Holm‏ @jonasholmdk 16 Apr 2018
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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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      3. MarilynDurham‏ @MarilynHanbyDur 17 Apr 2018
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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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      1. Charles‏ @Charles19550435 16 Apr 2018
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        Now if that doesn’t tell you something!

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