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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.
No, not Trump's tiny testicles; time to cut off the Russians from the internet as part of sanctions. They need us more than we need them and it's a fitting punishment.
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 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.
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.
To fabricate all this "Evidence" They must be slow learners or the CIA are POOR teachers. As they have a toolkit designed to attribute internet traffic to ANY PLACE THEY WANT. Fact. Their "Evidence" became USELESS once that toolkit hit the darkweb... As their is NO LONGER a 100% fool-proof method to be for certain that the CIA themselves did not fabricate this "Evidence" Minus that, we are just WORN out on this Russia BS. Zero hard evidence presented to the American people, after almost a year, means they are having a hard time fabricating it. Nothing more.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There sure are enough of them here, that's for damned sure.
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.