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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.
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.
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.
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.
Some Russians bought ads on the world's largest social network!? HOLY FUCK TRUMP MUST BE INVOLVED! PUTIN! NAZIS! #IMPEACH
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.
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.
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?
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.
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...
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.
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.
Well Russians primarily launder oligarchs and political leaders illicit money through real estate deals. Trump has been getting shady loans from banks with ties to Russia since the 90s since no American bank would touch him with a 10 foot pole. Further there have been many purchases of trump properties at suspicious prices through shell companies. FFS trump tried to negotiate a deal for the tallest building in the world to be built in Russia with his name on the front during his campaign. In short there is tons of circumstantial evidence he has been laundering Russian money since the 90s, maybe even the 80s. So he already had a relationship with Russia and Putin already had compromising material on him before this all began. Trump is cozy with Putin because there are huge sums of money on the line.
Further Russian hacking during the election was extensive. They corrupted the voter registration in a number of important locations forcing people to use the paper records but this caused massive lines and delays which can alter who votes. There were thousands of attempts to actually hack the machines themselves (through phishing attacks and directly), but publically released information makes this seem unlikely to be too much of an issue. Then there are the massive Russian troll farms spreading fake news on social media, such as Facebook and the recent FBI subpoena for who bought the fake ads. Further the CIA has picked up people talking about it and some of that has leaked publically.
Then there was the undisclosed meeting where JR meet with a Russian lawyer, a Russian hacker, and several others while the day before trump announced publically he was going to get dirt on Hillary. Just after the DNC was successfully phished and the infamous emails released that forced the head to step down in disgrace over screwing Bernie. This was a big win for trump and republicans.
Do I blame Russia for election meddling? Yes absolutely, but it's not like we haven't meddled there either. The public didn't know the details of watergate for about a year and a half from the incident, given what muller is doing I'm going to guess they have a ton of hard evidence already and before next summer we will find out most of what really happened. They don't no knock kick in the door of rich well connected white man at 6am without cause.
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.
Om, nomnomnom...
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.
Om, nomnomnom...
>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.
Your link directly contradicts your claim. The linked article refers to a 2004 conspiracy theory about Obama's religion, not place of birth, which was due to Andy Martin, not Hillary Clinton.
You should not have been modded up, quite the contrary.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
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.