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Facebook Shares Details Of Russia-Bought Ads With US Investigators (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run on Facebook during the presidential election, after they obtained a search warrant for the information. Facebook gave Mueller and his team copies of ads and related information it discovered on its site linked to a Russian troll farm, as well as detailed information about the accounts that bought the ads and the way the ads were targeted at American Facebook users, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN. The disclosure, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may give Mueller's office a fuller picture of who was behind the ad buys and how the ads may have influenced voter sentiment during the 2016 election...
As CNN reported Thursday, Facebook is still not sure whether pro-Kremlin groups may have made other ad buys intended to influence American politics that it simply hasn't discovered yet. It is even possible that unidentified ad buys may still exist on the social media network today.
As CNN reported Thursday, Facebook is still not sure whether pro-Kremlin groups may have made other ad buys intended to influence American politics that it simply hasn't discovered yet. It is even possible that unidentified ad buys may still exist on the social media network today.
Now that Mueller is running the biggest criminal investigation in world history (Russia and Trump's coup), and that Russia's criminal aggression and deceit is coming out, I expect arrests.
I'll laugh so hard when all the Putin-lovers are in jail, tossing Bubba's salad.
The real question, is why is good for Russian to have Trump as POTUS? Division !
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
Given the leaks coming from Washington DC and the fact the media is just itching for dirt on Trump. Seems to me if they had anything on Trump or his administration it would leak. Muller to me appears to be turning over stones and only finding moss. If he finds nothing, just imagine the complete waste of money he consumed for naught. Not to mention he ignores all the seedy connections people like Hillary Clinton had with foreign countries.
Facebook needs to release all 3000 ads that they were paid to run so that people can see for themselves what was being pushed.
Reading stories about it is nice, but what we really need is transparency. There is no reason to be secretive now that the cat is out of the bag. I want to see the ads myself, and I want more information about the firm that paid for them.
What are you, Kidding?
Even giving President Trump the benefit of the doubt, his relative political inexperience and lack of knowledge in foreign affairs is a tremendous benefit to any country seeking to counter American influence abroad. In practice, he has neglected to fill many senior positions in government--including in the State Department. The people who ordinarily fill those jobs--while some are overly political, others are AMAZING and do fantastic work.
Furthermore, to anyone who paid attention, it is ridiculously obvious that there was a deal with the Trump campaign to attempt to lift sanctions on various wealthy Russians in exchange for the release of the DNC emails. While making it *appear* that way is also in Russia's interest due to their desire to delegitimize the US government, we have pretty clear evidence of a deal--his people met with someone who offered to release damaging information about the DNC collected by Russian intelligence during a discussion about sanctions. His people claimed a deal wasn't reached, but they then covered up the meeting and the damaging information was released a month later timed to do maximum damage, and President-Elect Trump then proposed lifting sanctions a few months down the road.
So yes, it's circumstantial evidence--but it's incredibly strong circumstantial evidence, like two people meet on a corner, one with cash and the other with drugs, and when you pick them up a block away the one who had the cash before has drugs and the one who had the drugs before has cash. They both deny there was a sale, but if you believe there wasn't one, I have a bridge to sell you.
This nonsense about the Russians is still going on? Liberals really are retarded.
The Ukraine and Saudis were rooting for Hillary to win. Mexico was certainly anti Trump and may have tried to sway the election away from him too.
Is Facebook going to share that information or conveniently not mention it.
I say we blackhole the entire country, do real-ID for all access to the internet, and sanction them so hard, they bleed from every orifice.
The bastards must pay for what they did -- and are doing -- to us.
What if Russia-gate never happened, it was a total lie? Zero credible evidence so far.
That Mueller is desperately fishing everywhere is quite telling.
That Slashdot continues its blanket coverage of this story, almost certainly fake news, is also telling.
Oh, shut up Boris, you're boring.
Seriously, if you are actually an American, secede and declare war on us already.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
These stupid denials will not save your master from the consequences that are coming.
Mueller has assembled the legal equivalent of the Dream Team, these people normally work in the private sector and earn millions, and wouldn't join him unless they were participating in something massive and historic.
Mueller's reply is coming. It will be crushing, believe me.
*there
make it illegal for foreign countries to buy time and/or space for political advertizing, and only US Citizens are allowed to vote or even post comments about politics in the USA
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
"These stupid denials will not save your master from the consequences that are coming."
There is no credible evidence -- absolutely total zip -- that Russia had any significant impact on Trump's election. So Russia-gate is almost certainly a total lie.
Putin is not my master, nor is anyone from Russia, directly or indirectly. I just like the truth. Apparently that is toxic to you.
The Demonrats should have won by 20-30 points. Instead, their party's candidate lost, utterly wiped out. Their ideas rejected. Their future bleak.
"Collusion delusion" is their only hope. Save that ephemeral lifeline, their only way out of this reality would be to run naked in public, screaming "REEEE" all the way to the nuthouse.
Since we're talking past each other, I'll conclude by saying that you can't prove a negative, you're full of shit, and that few sane, educated people are fooled by Russia's torrent of lies.
How's life in the troll house?
"The Demonrats should have won by 20-30 points."
That is just opinion. As I said, no credible evidence. Russia-gate is almost certainly a blatant lie.
real-ID should start at home.
Implement the fucking e-Verify, and photoID-to-vote.
Then again, the DNC voter base would probably shrink to the single digit... Might not be a good idea to have the Repubs running the swamp alone.
"There is no evidence because the Mueller hasn't released any."
Neither has the press released any credible evidence. But that hasn't prevented them from banging on very loudly about it. Liars.
Why are you constantly using a Bulgarian name as an ethnic slur against the Russians?
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
"Since we're talking past each other, I'll conclude by saying that you can't prove a negative"
I'm just asking for some credible evidence that Russia-gate is true. You have absolutely none.
Usually the accuser has to give some evidence. The Western press has been loudly accusing Russia, but has absolutely no evidence. The Western press is seriously destroying its reputation by lying so much.
You are so heartless. Just look at what you and Trump made my snowflake friend do
There's tons of evidence. Stop lying, moskal.
Why are you constantly using a Bulgarian name as an ethnic slur against the Russians?
Because I love trolling the Russians and you. Now go collect your rubles. Mikhail
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
There's tons of speculation about collusion. There has been no credible evidence produced so far.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
How is that trolling if you use an unrelated name? Sounds more like a noob trying too hard.
And Mikhael is Jewish, by the way.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
So yes, it's circumstantial evidence--but it's incredibly strong circumstantial evidence, like two people meet on a corner, one with cash and the other with drugs, and when you pick them up a block away the one who had the cash before has drugs and the one who had the drugs before has cash.
Oh, you mean like meeting on the tarmac of a Phoenix Airport late at night during an investigation of criminal mishandling of government documents by the husband of the accused with the head of the investigative agency. But who are we kidding, they just talked about their kids and wanted to say hello to each as they passed each other with their very busy schedules.
He may be inexperienced dealing with people like the aforementioned, who isn't. But are those types of people looking out for the US citizens? I am thinking no.
Telling the truth on SlashLib seems to get you branded a "Troll" LMMFAO! How about disputing what I said? Maybe just TRY? :-D
Based on what? Cite independently verifiable sources of actual first-hand information that would lead to impeachment and removal from office.
The NSA and GCHQ spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year trolling all social media outlets with a potential of subverting public opinion. These programs aren't even secret. And here we see their impotent rage over the FACT that the mass murdering monster, Clinton, lost even though she had the most expensive campaign in Human History, and 99.99% of all media outlets, tradional and new, campaigned on her behalf.
But GCHQ's playbook in particular is 1984, so history must be rewritten to throw the facts of Clinton's campaign down the memory hole. So your memory of the money spent by Clinton is 'false', and your memory of the media support of her campaign is 'false'.
The most amusing part of you cretins swallowing the slashdot demonisation of Russia is that you think you can win a direct conflict with that nation. You dribblers actually think that when it comes to the World War Clinton and Slashdot owners so clearly desire, that the USA will come out on top.
Two years ago every media outlet in the West lied about Russia's activity in Syria, stating they weren't targeting ISIS, and that Syria would be another 'Afghanistan' for Russia. Today, America's Wahhabi terror gangs are dust as a tiny Russian force finishes up its project to defeat Washington and London's project in that region. So today the Team Clinton goes screaming mad with its pathetic demonisation of Russia.
Here's a message for Team Clinton. With the greatest propaganda machine in Human History, and all the money in the world, you still couldn't get America's Tony Blair- Hillary Clinton- elected to the highest office. You pathetic, vile and supremely evil neo-liberals and neo-cons, the utter scum of the faux left and faux right (what Tony Blair terms his 'Common Purpose') are now fully exposed in the eyes of the ordinary people. The more you howl 'putinbot' and other such hilarious impotent NewSpeak, the more you lose. You wanted war with Iran, and instead you get years of infighting as various factions of Team Clinton fight with one another as to which is most responsible for letting Hitlery down. And mad cow Clinton is never going to fade away- because you are too stupid to put that loser down for all time and recover rapidly from your loss. Trump may be an idiotic reality TV star, but the USA is used to such Presidents, like Reagan and Bush Jnr. But when voters look into the face of Clinton they see Satan- so thank you for keeping her memory alive.
Now evidence is important to you? After 8 fucking years of idiotic claims against Obama and Clinton NOW you want to see the evidence? Try looking in the basement of Comet Ping Pong...
Let's say this is all a big-ass witch hunt and Trump won based on his mastery of the English language and diplomatic abilities. Can you seriously say that Rex Tillerson is the best candidate for SoS, DeVos for SoE, etc?
Did he really drain the swamp?
So shut the fucking thing down already!
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Everyone has a first amendment right to anonymous speech, but I guess the first amendment isn't very popular lately. I'm also very curious as to how you think a country can be blocked off without people routing around it. You'd need a constitutional amendment to do any of that and even then it simply wouldn't work very well on a technical level, as we can see from looking at China over the past 20 years or so.
Don't you think it's just a little weird that you want to turn the USA into China because you're scared of Russia?
Have it both ways, also make it illegal for US citizen and government to buy/influence/comment on politics outside of USA.
The world would become a much better place.
How is that trolling if you use an unrelated name? Sounds more like a noob trying too hard. And Mikhael is Jewish, by the way.
Whooshies,
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
If the history of special counsel investigations is any indication, it won't be crushing. At all.
Mind showing it to us then? There are allegations of classified evidence and anonymous sources, but my anonymous & classified sources say that yours are complete lies. They conceived the Russia thing back during the primaries and we have the email to prove it. It was fake then as it is now.
There was the Crowstrike, Trend Micro, and ODNI reports, but none of them said anything of any value and there were serious gaps in their analysis that are inexplicable, like failing to recognize Tor exit nodes, failing to identify old freeware copies of P.A.S., etc. The pissgate dossier's most ridiculous part lifted from a 4-chan hoax and we can verify that at least one of the people in it wasn't even in the country the dossier said he was. Also, you all told us it came from a UK spy, but I thought that colluding with and paying $100,000 to foreign intelligence agents for dirt was a bad thing? Something something foreign election influence? But it's okay if you sell a dossier filled with lies, but it's not okay for the USA to learn the truth about their candidates?
The rest of what you have is people playing 6 degrees to Kevin Bacon with the entire country of Russia, and a forest of WaPo & CNN articles that all cite each other, never mind that the WaPo was caught holding an under-the-table fundraiser for the DNC that the DNC's own lawyers said they couldn't do or CNN rigging the debates and then lying both about Wikileaks and about the emails being faked. The DKIM headers prove mathematically that it's a lie and anyone can pull the DKIM key from Hillary's own damned DNS server. Maybe she should have wiped it with a cloth or something?
In short, put your evidence where your mouth is. Some of us don't buy fake news, no matter who is trying to sell it. There's not a thing here that can't be independently verified by anyone with a browser. That's a far cry from your posts claiming to have lots of evidence and showing us none of it, no?
Which is why I expect your "rebuttal" if you write one will be some nonsense claiming that everyone against you is secretly Russian. But really, why don't you take a little test on that. Which of the following items sounds the most like something a Russian traitor would do?
[1] Sanctioning Russia
[2] Selling Putin a large quantity of uranium.
If your answer is [1], you might be suffering from derangement. If your answer is [2], then there's someone else you should want to lock up.
>I was only pretending to be retarded!
being worthless. Ah, our tax dollars being wasted again.
So many are trying to tie Trump to the Russians with no real success. At the same time they turn a blind eye on who has had large a Russian connection and got millions from the Russians, the Clinton's. The whole 1013 uranium dealings. The clintons got millions into the Clinton foundation and a couple million personally in speaking fees. it is very likely that this whole Russian thing is something that went wrong there and the Russians are mad at the Clinton's about. Looking at what the Russians have done is screw over Hillary, who they have had large dealings with in the last few years.
So, your response is ignorant, racist stereotypes? Figures.
So you really do think that you are genuinely funny.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Boris Godunov, Boris Pasternak, Boris Yeltsin, Boris Nemtsov, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Johnson, ...
Boris Becker
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Good work keeping the bots at bay but you misread this one.
Customers with US IP address had their language settings to Russian! That's their evidence.
Show me all the outrage over all the customers with US IP address who had their language set to Spanish!
It's blatantly racist, hypocrisy, and nothing but bad political theater.
So you really do think that you are genuinely funny.
I'm the straight man - allowing you fo be funny. Yer doin a helluva job!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Boris Godunov, Boris Pasternak, Boris Yeltsin, Boris Nemtsov, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Johnson, ...
Strange that he didn't know there are people in Russia named Boris. Whatever, I'm just here for the LuLz
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
There sure are enough of them here, that's for damned sure.
So, your response is ignorant, racist stereotypes? Figures.
Look You anonymous Coward - exactly what race am I isting? You would be really really surprised to find out my ethnicity.
And it is ethnicity I'm spearing, not race. Don't you have a cultural appropriation protest to go to somewhere Angelique?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
>I was only pretending to be retarded!
Well hell, how is a retard like me supposed to know? 8^)
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Swiftboating. Pure, undiluted Swiftboating. Criminal interference in other countries is what you fuckers do. Bullshit invasions, regime change, overthrowing democracies, kidnapping & torturing people to death.....it's. all. you.
Besides all the other plotholes in the Russiagate McCarthyism, we're supposed to believe that Putin was clever enough to dig up dirt on Hillary (which all happened to be true) to swing the election, but at the same time was so stupid as collude with someone as stupid as Trump. Which means the NSA, the CIA and the FBI would know all about said collusion. As would President Elect Hillary, as the race was still hers to lose until she decided to take the Rust Belt for granted and not campaign in that region of the country, because reasons. The same Hillary that campaigned on shooting down Russian jets in Syria.
And as I see there's already one "go home Boris" asshole in this thread, do show how you guys have more evidence than the antivaxxers, the Birthers, the chem trailers, or the people who think the Clintons had Arkansas State Troopers running heroin for them throughout the state when he was governor. The same jackasses who accuse anyone of being on Putin's payroll because they question any of this bullshit are the same people who ran around in 2003, accusing anyone who questioned the Iraq lies of being in love with Saddam.
You were full of shit then, and you're full of shit now.
You mean when David Brock spent a million dollars hiring internet trolls on Hillary's behalf?
As with all Hillbot smears - racism, misogyny, collusion, election cheating - this one is pure projection.
No, it wasn't the Russians. It was the Democrats. Since the day Obama took office, it's been going down hill. There's a reason that over those years and right up through the most recent election, they've lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and millions of two-time Obama voters who left in disgust. If you really think that the Russians buying a few hundred thousand dollars worth of FB ads overturned Hillary's 140 MILLION in ad spending, to make her fail despite her consistent honesty, genuine affability, long string of tremendous policy and executive successes, and careful tending to matters of security and whatnot ... never mind. You know why she lost.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Since the day Obama took office, it's been going down hill.
Oh, just, stop! It's been going down hill since Kennedy died.
Point is you don't even have to look at decades past - the Democrats lost control at the state and federal level during Obama's watch, and Hillary's whining about this having happened just to her is just another example of how disingenuous a liar she is.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Both Trump and Clinton (and most every other democrat/republican) proved that idiot voters don't care about liars. The best liar always wins. Meanwhile, and much more importantly, the money keeps flowing into the coffers... Obviously, for both sides, lying is good business.
The difference is that Clinton is the one who has spent years in and around public office lying and collecting huge amounts of money while selling access via her or her husband's executive power. She's the one who did things, while in public office, that would put anyone else under her into jail ... and she lied about that non-stop and is still doing so. She's the one who was taking mountains of cash from foreigners and foreign governments, including from people who are the very antithesis of the positions she claims to stake out when pandering to the demographic she's pretending to serve. Both of them say lots of nonsense, but she's the one who destroyed government documents under subpoena, played fast and loose with classified information, and enriched herself - to the tune of millions of dollars - by selling access and campaign influence, including to foreign governments. The liberal media has the entire narrative so perfectly, absolutely, exquisitely backwards that it would be hilarious if it weren't so squalid and ugly.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
It's the democrat media, not 'liberal' media. 'Liberal' implies liberalism, and there is none in US politics. And yes, the democratic faction of the ruling party is the more deceptive one, but not a liberal one. You gotta remember, they have to play both sides, pandering to their base and to the 'liberals' to keep that money from going to a second party. I find their ingratitude towards Sheepdog Sanders to be rather disturbing, but not surprising. And another yes, it is the DNC that broke the rules, it was their emails that blew their cover, not Clinton's. The fraud was committed during the democratic primaries, not in the general election.
And the republicans? Well, they've sucked since Eisenhower retired. I mean, Goldwater was okay, but he didn't get anywhere. Then the republicans made their *Southern Strategy* play in '68 while the dems nominated Humphrey in the same corrupt fashion as they did Hillary. The role reversal was complete. The KKK democrats became the SJW (as opposed to the civil rights) democrats. I kinda miss Dole. I so wish he won in '96. But the dems ran a slicker campaign, oh well...