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Very excited to see the Mueller indictment today. We shared Russian ads with Congress, Mueller and the American people to help the public understand how the Russians abused our system. Still, there are keys facts about the Russian actions that are still not well understood.
Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to effect the outcome of the 2016 US election. I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal.
The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election.https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/10/hard-questions-russian-ads-delivered-to-congress/ …
The main goal of the Russian propaganda and misinformation effort is to divide America by using our institutions, like free speech and social media, against us. It has stoked fear and hatred amongst Americans. It is working incredibly well. We are quite divided as a nation.
The single best demonstration of Russia's true motives is the Houston anti-islamic protest. Americans were literally puppeted into the streets by trolls who organized both the sides of protest.https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/11/01/russian-trolls-organized-both-sides-of-an-islam-protest-in-texas …
The Russian campaign is ongoing. Just last week saw news that Russian spies attempted to sell a fake video of Trump with a hooker to the NSA. US officials cut off the deal because they were wary of being entangled in a Russian plot to create discord.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/politics/us-cyberweapons-russia-trump.html …
There are easy ways to fight this. Disinformation is ineffective against a well educated citizenry. Finland, Sweden and Holland have all taught digital literacy and critical thinking about misinformation to great effect.http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/01/why-is-finland-able-to-fend-off-putins-information-war/ …
We are also taking aggressive steps to prevent this sort of meddling in the future by requiring verification of political advertisers and by making all ads on the platform visible to anyone who cares to examine them.https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/10/update-on-our-advertising-transparency-and-authenticity-efforts/ …
She's right! You need to end your comments with *This tweet does not represent the views & opinions of the company* There's no doubt that Facebook ads, and comments like yours was a good part of the 'perfect storm' that undermined our Democracy.https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-executive-rob-goldman-apologizes-to-company-and-robert-mueller/ …
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are complicit. #BoycottFacebook
They just hired a Russian troll that was supervising the troll factory in St. Petersburg that Mueller busted. Paid to relocate the couple in the USA. Yes, FB is complicit and needs to be regulated or shut down.
You’ve missed the point. The Russians spent money on ads trying to sway the election. Period. Just because they spent money after the election doesn’t undo what they did before the election. I get that your job is to sell ads. But please rethink how.
He’s not missing <— (italics) the point. He’s avoiding <— (underline) the point. Intentionally. Sad. #fb was supposed to bring ppl together, not divide a country and worse. And like #JakeHouseman said in #DirtyDancing, “When I’m wrong I say I’m wrong.” He should too.
Why not release all the Russian ads so that the public can reach their own judgment?
Try this link, it's the largest collection. NY Times also has a page with 20 or so.https://medium.com/@ushadrons
An ad exec to stupid to see that the ads for the other side were targeted scaremongering? Don't buy it #releasetheads
Maybe, just maybe, the opinion of the Intelligence community is more reliable than that of an ad-man who benefited personally from the situation he's trying to downplay. Maybe.
What a disingenuous attempt to deflect from your responsibility. Your assessment isnt based on knowledge of Russian intent but YOUR intent to absolve FB of its participation in Putin's attempt to cut at heart of our democracy. That IS purpose of swaying an election, & you helped.
Absolutely. Full stop.
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