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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.

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  1. Re:Good news by burtosis · · Score: 4, Informative

    While I agree good fkn luck. This is the crime too big to jail. If we didn't do squat about banks laundering tens of billions of dollars, lying about ratings, illegally forclosing on people, etc - except bail them out and handsomely pay thier executives- nothing is going to be done about this. Best we can hope for is maybe get Trump out of office (no criminal conviction) and only because republicans can't get basic crap done and even the densest Trump supporters are starting to realize it's all just been lies. The main sources of corruption will still be there and the Russians will have learned how cheap and effective it is to buy thier way into politics.

  2. Re:even if no collusion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    > Everyone knows that Hilary was by far the better candidate and has a brilliant record of public administrator
    https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-...
    https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/837704382472933376
    Public administration whereby she leaked like a sinking ship and was deeply compromised by other nations? You seem to be another person who missed that the Russia narrative was started by.... Russia. http://www.washingtontimes.com...

  3. It is. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Good news by Mashiki · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's hilarious that Trump, who spread that racist lie about Obama's birth place is a stone cold traitor.

    FYI: That was hillary clinton. It was her idea in order to stop him from being a candidate in the DNC primary. Enjoy your craziness for the day. You can also find WAPO articles on it if you want, including articles from the guy that the Clinton campaign passed the info to and was sent to Africa and tried to find out if it was true or not.

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  5. Re:Good news by Mashiki · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about Russians?

    You should ask the media. The Trump-Russian narritive suddenly got very quiet about a month or so back, right around the time th at Debbie Washamaln Schultz's "IT guy" was arrested while trying to leave the country, and that one just keeps getting more interesting. Including that he sold emails(of nearly all the democrats) and classified information to multiple foreign governments.

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