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U.S. Congress finally emits all 3,000 Russian "troll" - Facebook ads. Let's take a look at some.

Posted: May 12th, 2018 - 1:17 pm

US Congress has released more than 3,000 Facebook ads purchased and created by the Internet Research Agency, a pro-Kremlin so-called troll factory.

Previously the House Intelligence Committee had only released about 50.

Usefully, the panel includes information on who the advert was targeted at, and how much engagement it received, in terms of impressions and clicks. Not all views and clicks are by humans, remember.

You may have expected hundreds or thousands of posts condemning Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and promoting Donald Trump, but that is not the case.

Many of the ads were not directly politically related, and instead highlighted black and LGBT civil rights issues. They repeated the Black Lives Matters mantra, demanded stronger borders, and called for protests against homophobia and police brutality. Rather than outright back a particular candidate, instead many of the paid-for Facebook posts sought to set people against each other: blacks against whites, muslims against christians, citizens against immigrants, and so on.

The cache includes ads that were racist and inflammatory, and were seemingly designed to reinforce and enable prejudices. Many played to their base, in other words. For instance, a post that read, "A message from Muslim American kids to all citizens of the US," was actually targeted at people who liked, or were connected to those who liked, the group United Muslims of America.....

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U.S. Congress finally emits all 3,000 Russian "troll" - Facebook ads. Let's take a look at some. (Views: 416, 2018-05-12, 1:17 pm)
- Most of them were designed to foment unrest and dissent. - What they really wanted was to divide (Views: 236, 2018-05-12, 1:20 pm)
  - They deliberately ran a scattergun of messages, types of ads, - and blog comments in various (Views: 263, 2018-05-12, 3:12 pm)
    - Most of us already knew that. Mueller is not - investigating ads. nm (Views: 166, 2018-05-13, 10:16 pm)
- What I really want to know is the numbers on the same - matter from WaP, NYT, CNN, etc. (Views: 297, 2018-05-12, 1:23 pm)
  - What the traditional media did to try and get Hillary elected - was massive. This all seems (Views: 250, 2018-05-12, 1:27 pm)
    - Maybe but not in my state, one of the three - deciding states. (Views: 297, 2018-05-12, 1:39 pm)
    - Hillary spent $1.2 BILLION on the campaign so I dout - this is going to influence anything. (Views: 246, 2018-05-12, 3:16 pm)
  - They still are trying to divide and conquer. Look at the bias - against guns and how gun owners (Views: 233, 2018-05-12, 1:43 pm)
    - MSM has been pushing Democrats for years. It's amazing - a republican even gets elected (Views: 279, 2018-05-12, 1:57 pm)
      - The FB Russia thing is not laughable. It's - serious stuff. (Views: 267, 2018-05-12, 2:14 pm)
      - Plus the free advertising they get on the media talk shows - praising them and bashing republicans. (Views: 180, 2018-05-13, 7:28 am)
    - and there are those on the right who keep - insinuating that democrats (Views: 307, 2018-05-12, 2:09 pm)
  - Obama used to the media and Hollywood to spread his - agenda. Russia made no special (Views: 268, 2018-05-12, 1:47 pm)
- There's a reason why many people aren't informed. - Why don't trust but verify what the MSM (Views: 240, 2018-05-12, 2:17 pm)
- Hubby has been in the business of political ads for many - years. The Russians had nothing to do (Views: 268, 2018-05-12, 2:31 pm)
  - The ads were paid in rubles. - nm (Views: 280, 2018-05-12, 3:09 pm)
    - So it makes it even LESS in US dollars. - Thanks. (Views: 191, 2018-05-13, 7:30 am)