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Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the assuming-responsibility dept.

Some 10 million people in the United States saw politically divisive ads on Facebook that the company said were purchased in Russia in the months before and after last year's U.S. presidential election, Facebook said on Monday. From a report: Facebook, which had not previously given such an estimate, said in a statement that it used modeling to estimate how many people saw at least one of the 3,000 ads. It also said that 44 percent of the ads were seen before the November 2016 election and 56 percent were seen afterward. The ads have sparked anger toward Facebook and, within the United States, toward Russia since the world's largest social network disclosed their existence last month. Moscow has denied involvement with the ads.

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  1. SHUT UP! by RAID+Roach+Killer · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nobody cares. Russia hacked into your brain and installed a brain slug that made you vote for Trump. If we keep telling you that, surely you will believe it.

    --msmash

    1. Re:SHUT UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Everyone I disagree with is a Russian."

      -Narcocide, 2017

  2. Re: Hillary spent $1.2 billion... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Sniff sniff, strong the vodka smells on this one.

  3. Re: FFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    $100k on stupid FB ads that supported identity politics changed nothing.

    Hillary spent over a billion dollars and you clowns think $100k made a difference? If that's true then we need the Russians to help run our country because our current lesders in both parties are ridiculously out of touch with us.

  4. Re: Hillary spent $1.2 billion... by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Trump didn't win. Clinton lost. And considering she was running against the least popular candidate in US electoral history, the vast majority of the focus should be on how much Clinton and the DNC failed.

    You do know that Trump set a record both in vote tallies and more than doubled the number of votes received over his closest rival, Ted Cruz. http://www.thegatewaypundit.co...

    Sorry, but rather than the least popular candidate in US history, I claim that numbers like that illustrate that he is not only the most popular ever, but he also shares the values of the Republican party more than any other candidate in US history.

    You don't get that sort of support by being unpopular and out of tune with your party.

    I know that Republicans are the never wrong party, but you have to own this one. Trump is the soul of the party, and represents the total package of their ideals.

    --
    The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.