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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:even if no collusion by blellow_party · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With the rest of the world, Trump has been repugnantly pugnacious and pugilistic, but with Putin, he's been a pussy-cat. Apparently, he's somebody they can work with, unlike his opponent.

  2. Re:Good news by benjfowler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The millions of people out there in the civil service don't serve Trump. They serve America, and many have sworn oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. They're doing an admirable job.

    The Founding Fathers, in their genius, wrote the Constitution, knowing eventually that people like Trump and Putin would come along. I have a newfound respect for what they built. Trump will not prevail.

    Think about what you're saying for a bit.

  3. Re:Good news by Tough+Love · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Lock him up!

    Donald Trump will go down in history as the first POTUS to leave office in handcuffs.

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    When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
  4. Re:Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's hilarious that Trump, who spread that racist lie about Obama's birth place is a stone cold traitor.
    This piece of shit is going down in history as one of the world's worst traitors, after his Russian funded empire presidency crumbles.

  5. Selective outrage by NaCh0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Selective outrage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There's a difference between "rooting for" a candidate and "illegally hiring hundreds of people to campaign for them online."

  6. Re:even if no collusion by benjfowler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Russia much?

    Amazing how much you guys will go to obscure Putin's little bitch beef with Hilary. Contemptible.

    Everyone knows that Hilary was by far the better candidate and has a brilliant record of public administrator -- and that Putin destroyed her because he can't stand a successful and prosperous West. Like the evil, filthy, hateful little pervert he is, he hates beautiful things, and has to ruin and defile the West, because his evil black soul can't lift up Russia.

    Don't worry, Hilary and the West will have the last laugh.

  7. Re:Good news by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    As the steadfast Republicans are finding out, there is not a limit on where these investigations go. I recall ehy giggled like schoolgirls as their moral touchstone, a man of highes saintly caliber refused to respond to rapists at Baylor, and now has reaped much Karma.

    But I digress, The good Mr Starr, when the Republicans decided it was time to take Little Willy Clinton down, started with the Whitewater S&L scandal. Oops, nothing there. So now it is Paula Jones. Hmm, about as trustworthy and attention seeking as a Kardashian. So now we move on to Vince Foster suicide. Ermmm, pretty bad taste, for the party of the moral high ground. So finally, a goddamn blowjob allowed them to impeach old Slick Willy. A sleazy dude for certain, but perhaps a trendsetter for the current occupant.

    Call it karma, call it prior art or case law, the leader of the Republican party now gets to endure the same sort of thing.

    I wonder if the worst thing they will find is a blowjob between two consenting adults?

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  8. Re: Good news by Tough+Love · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Get over it, Trump won, for better or worse.

    Worse. 1) Cheated 2) Devalued the office of the president of the USA 3) Grab them by the pussy.

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    When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
  9. this should prompt new laws by FudRucker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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

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    Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
  10. Re:Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing says "Take me seriously!" like a good old fashioned conspiracy theory backed up with zero facts of any sort!

    Alex Jones is good for a few things, namely:

    1: A good laugh
    2: Source material for a drinking game
    3: Proving the adage about a fool and their money oh so very right (no pun intended) on a daily basis

    The one thing he is NOT good for, is a source of information to cite if you want any non-kool aid drinker to do anything other than roll their eyes, groan, and immediately dismiss you as some crackpot conspiracy nut who probably has tinfoil lining in his underwear. Do yourself a favor and expand your horizons a little in terms of "news" consumption.