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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.
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.
BUT HER EMAILS!
To answer you: because a pro-American guy in charge of America is actually good for Russia (and yes, America). Russia and America are natural allies, with zero conflicts. The globalists, on the other hand...
Look at what the globalist asshat Obama did: support for Muslim Bro-hood/ISIS, support for warmongering NATO (trying for bases at Russia's belly in Ukraine), support for China's militarism.
Who is this globalist shit good for?
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.
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.
I say we blackhole the entire country, do real-ID for all access to the internet, and sanction them so hard, they bleed from every orifice.
The bastards must pay for what they did -- and are doing -- to us.
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.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
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.
*there
More boring pro-Putin bullshit.
The West and Russia are *NOT* natural allies. We are natural sworn enemies, like bears and wolves, We are strategic competitors, not allies. As you Putin-lovers are about to find out the hard way.
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
> 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...
The Demonrats should have won by 20-30 points. Instead, their party's candidate lost, utterly wiped out. Their ideas rejected. Their future bleak.
"Collusion delusion" is their only hope. Save that ephemeral lifeline, their only way out of this reality would be to run naked in public, screaming "REEEE" all the way to the nuthouse.
Since we're talking past each other, I'll conclude by saying that you can't prove a negative, you're full of shit, and that few sane, educated people are fooled by Russia's torrent of lies.
How's life in the troll house?
We are natural sworn enemies, like Nazis and Americans, or Communists and Americans, or French and Americans, or the British and Americans, or Muslims and Americans, or Native Americans and Americans.
There's tons of evidence. Stop lying, moskal.
Why are you constantly using a Bulgarian name as an ethnic slur against the Russians?
Because I love trolling the Russians and you. Now go collect your rubles. Mikhail
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
There's tons of speculation about collusion. There has been no credible evidence produced so far.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Telling the truth on SlashLib seems to get you branded a "Troll" LMMFAO! How about disputing what I said? Maybe just TRY? :-D
Everyone knows that she was the better candidate and she lost the election. Listen to yourself.
Russia much?
Amazing how much you guys will go to obscure Putin's little bitch beef with Hilary. Contemptible.
Way to be a sexist jerk, Ben.
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?
How is that trolling if you use an unrelated name? Sounds more like a noob trying too hard. And Mikhael is Jewish, by the way.
Whooshies,
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
If the history of special counsel investigations is any indication, it won't be crushing. At all.
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.
Admit it - you know three fiths of fuck all about Putin, or Hillary.
So sick of you warmongering, meddling, whinging, finger-pointing, temper tantrum pricks. Ever since I was born, all I've ever known is the USA bombing someone, or invading someone, bullying someone, swinging other countries' elections, installing puppet dictators or telling others what to do. Insinuating evil in others when they don't bend over and take it up the arse.
Everywhere you go you leave a mess - then blame others for that mess.
Just like your athletes, you never, ever take any responsibility for your own actions - it's always the weather, or equipment failure, or the other side cheated, or the umpires were biased, or it was the UN, or Russia, or China, or the EU, or the media, or who-the-fuck ever. Never your own fault.
Just shut the fuck up. ALL of you. And get your act together and try to be good planetary citizens, for once. Just once before I die.
You're doing a great job of showing why people should vote Trump 2020. Keep being unhinged, it's killing the left.
Om, nomnomnom...
So you really do think that you are genuinely funny.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Boris Godunov, Boris Pasternak, Boris Yeltsin, Boris Nemtsov, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Johnson, ...
The real question, is why is good for Russian to have Trump as POTUS? Division !
With Trump in power, no US media outlet has time for reporting human rights abuses abroad. That could be the whole agenda.
Like Putin is saying: "Donald, CNN wants to run story about Russia torturing gays. We need morning poop tweet, comrade."
Boris Becker
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
So you really do think that you are genuinely funny.
I'm the straight man - allowing you fo be funny. Yer doin a helluva job!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Boris Godunov, Boris Pasternak, Boris Yeltsin, Boris Nemtsov, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Johnson, ...
Strange that he didn't know there are people in Russia named Boris. Whatever, I'm just here for the LuLz
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
So, your response is ignorant, racist stereotypes? Figures.
Look You anonymous Coward - exactly what race am I isting? You would be really really surprised to find out my ethnicity.
And it is ethnicity I'm spearing, not race. Don't you have a cultural appropriation protest to go to somewhere Angelique?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
>I was only pretending to be retarded!
Well hell, how is a retard like me supposed to know? 8^)
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
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.
No, it wasn't the Russians. It was the Democrats. Since the day Obama took office, it's been going down hill. There's a reason that over those years and right up through the most recent election, they've lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and millions of two-time Obama voters who left in disgust. If you really think that the Russians buying a few hundred thousand dollars worth of FB ads overturned Hillary's 140 MILLION in ad spending, to make her fail despite her consistent honesty, genuine affability, long string of tremendous policy and executive successes, and careful tending to matters of security and whatnot ... never mind. You know why she lost.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
but with Putin, he's been a pussy-cat
Yeah, doing things like blowing up Putin's client states aircraft, not undoing many Obama-era executive movements against Russia, that sort of thing. Nothing but warm and fuzzy.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Everyone knows that Hilary was by far the better candidate and has a brilliant record of public administrator
Hilarious. She was a terrible candidate, hated by much of her own party, and has a career full of lying, corruption, feckless management, carelessness with classified information (and more lying about that), endless throwing-under-the-buss of her friends, associates and staff, and lots of backing up of her husband's abusive sexual predation, even to taking advantage of her power and connections in the White House to dispatch people YOU pay with your tax dollars to smear the reputations of the women he abused. She's a raving hypocrite famous for yelling obscenities at her protective details and coming unglued under pressure. She was a terrible Secretary of State and would have made an especially corrupt, awful president.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
benjfowler, i don't mind you having opinions, or being brain washed... but what's terribly sad is that you got 2 +5 posts here.
It either means there's a lot more sheep on slashdot than I previously thought, or you part of some pro-hillary organization that comments and then gives themselves + reviews through other accounts. I seriously hope it's the latter, because if it's the former... we all lost already.
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.
No. By choosing to portray a person as completely evil, rather than criticising their actions, policies opinions etc, you make your whole statement unbelievable. I am no fan of Putin, and he doesn't seem bashful when it comes to unsavoury methods, but considering that Russia is overrun by organised crime, rightwing extremists etc, perhaps he is less bad than many others would be. He certainly seems to be very popular, so it could be that a majority of Russians actually want his style of leadership. Also, I think it is downright childish to say that "he can't stand a successful and prosperous West"; Western countries in general have seen modest economical growth in recent decades, while China, India and Russia, among others have seen massive groth rates, so what is there to envy? But he has seen how the West, and in particular the US, have been struggling financially and politically, culminating in absurdities like Trump and Brexit, so he feel emboldened and exploits the situation. Wouldn't the US have done the same? In fact, wasn't that exactly what you guys did throughout the Cold War? And when Gorbachev started on his reform policies, is it not true that Reagan saw his chance to push things over, so he could boast that he had "destroyed Communism" and ended the Cold War? What we see in Russia today has a lot to do with the fact that Gorbachev's reform failed, and Yeltsin gave away state assets to corrupt officials. The Western Powers have a history of meddling and then suffering the consequences, and still we haven't learned.
Point is you don't even have to look at decades past - the Democrats lost control at the state and federal level during Obama's watch, and Hillary's whining about this having happened just to her is just another example of how disingenuous a liar she is.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
The difference is that Clinton is the one who has spent years in and around public office lying and collecting huge amounts of money while selling access via her or her husband's executive power. She's the one who did things, while in public office, that would put anyone else under her into jail ... and she lied about that non-stop and is still doing so. She's the one who was taking mountains of cash from foreigners and foreign governments, including from people who are the very antithesis of the positions she claims to stake out when pandering to the demographic she's pretending to serve. Both of them say lots of nonsense, but she's the one who destroyed government documents under subpoena, played fast and loose with classified information, and enriched herself - to the tune of millions of dollars - by selling access and campaign influence, including to foreign governments. The liberal media has the entire narrative so perfectly, absolutely, exquisitely backwards that it would be hilarious if it weren't so squalid and ugly.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Wow, STRAIGHT out of Putin troll central casting. You're not even trying to hide the fact that you don't have an original thought in your head, and just regurgitate the Chekist/mafia party line.
We are infinitely better than your corrupt, dysfunctional shithole. We don't even have to say it, we just know it.
You, however, have to keep repeating this ridiculous fantasy that the West is just as bad as your sad, broken, dysfunctional shithole of a country; that our leaders are as bad as the filthy murdering degenerate running yours; that our institutions are as hollowed out as yours (which you'll soon learn is WRONG, when American judicial institutions crush your shitty 2016 scam like an empty soda can); that our military is as weak as yours (which, again, you'll learn when we stomp your incompetent, ill-equipped conscript arses).
You are a sad waste of a good education, your country is a shithole, and your entire world view is a riscible, ridiculous lie.
It's telling what you consider a strong leader: a man who not only is a sad, incompetent crook like all the other leaders your dump of a country have been saddled with; but is a world-class murderer and sneak. You believe that somehow, that makes him a great man. What a sick, twisted place Russia must be