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Facebook Shares Details Of Russia-Bought Ads With US Investigators (cnn.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the in-Russia,-Facebook-updates-you dept.

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.

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  1. Good news by benjfowler · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.

    1. Re:Good news by benjfowler · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Completely unprecedented. But it will be awesome.

  2. Re:Smoke and mirrors by benjfowler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Trump isn't just associated with Russian organised crime, Trump IS a Russian crime lord. And Putin is il capo di tutti capi, they are soulmates, fellow perverts and sadists.

    Trump and the entire constellation of American criminals and traitors are going down.

    And then we are coming after Putin. He'll die, bloodied and beaten like the dog he is, just like Gaddafi. Libya was the warm-up act.

  3. Re:Selective outrage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Ukraine is in the process of being invaded by Russia.

    Of course they didn't want a candidate that was compromised by Russia as the president of the USA.

    Now as far as the Saudis wanting Hillary to win, there sure does seem to be a lot of love between Trump and the Saudis.