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Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com)
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.
Facebook admitted to promoting pro-Hillary and suppressing pro-Trump stories/outlets. Where is the investigation and media attention for that?
Moscow has denied involvement with the ads.
Yeah, Moscow has no credibility because it lies so much even when it is incredibly obvious to the non-cynical.
I mean, remember when they invaded Ukraine and said "Nah, that's not us!"
(Not the best source, but an accurate headline:) https://www.thedailybeast.com/...
The only ameliorating factor in this is how millions of those ads were probably never seen by a human but instead rendered onto an offscreen bitmap in video memory by a fraudulent ad bot designed to extract the most funds out of unsuspecting advertisers, in this case Russia but usually clueless Madison Ave. companies.
Young, college-educated, urban women are the biggest Facebook user demographic. Doesn't sound too red-state to me!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!