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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:What if Russia-gate is a total lie? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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.

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    The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
  2. Re:What if Russia-gate is a total lie? by benjfowler · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.