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Google Uncovers Russia-Bought Ads On YouTube, Gmail and Other Platforms (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google has discovered Russian operatives spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads on its YouTube, Gmail and Google Search products in an effort to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a person briefed on the company's probe told Reuters on Monday. The ads do not appear to be from the same Kremlin-affiliated entity that bought ads on Facebook, but may indicate a broader Russian online disinformation effort, according to the source, who was not authorized to discuss details of Google's confidential investigation. The revelation is likely to fuel further scrutiny of the role that Silicon Valley technology giants may have unwittingly played during last year's election. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Moscow's goal was to help elect Donald Trump. Google has uncovered less than $100,000 in ad spending potentially linked to Russian actors, the source said.
That is generally called corruption, but betrayal of the founding principles of your country for money is also called treason. The rule of law is a global indicator of civilization, which has been trashed by the US Trump administration, and particularly by Trump himself. He may not understand reality as it occurs every day though, which means he needs to go into a hospital for treatment rather than jail.
Lost in all of this is the outrage for the Clinton Campaign spending millions of dollars to astroturf comments sections all over the web during the campaign. David Brock was the culprit yet no outrage.
It's been Boy who Cried Wolf for almost a year now, multiple times daily. Enough that when Trump does something news worthy, it's gets ignored and/or buried.
Let me break down what you wrote
The presented idea is that either individuals stopped voting for HRC or started voting for Trump because of facebook and youtube ads.
I don't subscribe to this theory but Hillary and a large portion of her supporters view her voters as this easily duped.
I am a bit amazed that you you immediately follow that sentence with
Either way by definition those people would not be Hillary supporters.
You just said they stopped voting for HCR over facebook/youtube commercials which means they once were supporting her else how would they stop? Or are you doing the typical Clinton double talk "I said 'are' not 'was'".
Flynn was attempting to reform the Intelligence Community, to bring it back in line with the law and with open American values. Thus he was smeared and had his good name dragged through the mud.
Nice bullet points from "Media Matters", started by David Brock, who is funded by George Soros.
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