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How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election (recode.net)
Facebook has rolled out a new tool to help some users figure out if they interacted with Russian propaganda during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "The social giant's tool -- available here, through its Help Center -- specifically allows users to see if they followed or 'Liked' any pages and accounts set up by Kremlin-backed trolls on either Facebook or Instagram," reports Recode. From the report: Over the course of the 2016 election, Facebook estimates that roughly 140 million users may have seen Russian propaganda in their News Feeds or on Instagram. Much of that content sought to sow social and political unrest around divisive issues like race, religion and LGBT rights. But only a small slice of those 140 million affected users can actually take advantage of Facebook's new tool, which it first previewed in November. That's because the portal only aids those who directly followed one of the accounts or pages set up by Russian sources on Instagram and Facebook. It does not help users who may have simply seen Kremlin-sponsored content because their friends "Liked" it and it subsequently appeared in their own News Feeds. Facebook's new service also doesn't allow users to check if they saw some of the roughly 3,000 election-timed ads purchased by Russia's notorious trolls, known as the Internet Research Agency. About 10 million users saw those ads around the election, the company previously has said.
Look. The US 2016 Election happened for a few reasons:
1. Mass White Supremacist Blowback from 8 years of having a black President.
2. Right Wing anti-worker and anti-union behaviour that crushed the Middle Class. Socially, Obama was a liberal President. But Economically, he was a Center Right Wing Republican. He signed the TPP, which had it been ratified, would have created one of the worst International Oligarchies of Human history over the planet Earth.
3. A series of "Voter ID Laws" that were intended to allow Republicans in Northern states and other places to steal elections by denying young people, and people of color the right to vote. They are effectively Jim Crow laws, but targeted at Black people specifically.
4. The Rise of a Radical Christian Dominionist Congress in 2013, that was only ever held in check by Presidential Veto.
5. The fact that the Democrats effectively put up the worst Candiate possible to galvanize Right Wing Hate of the US left. They alienated Populists who feared - again, that the TPP would have been ratified under a Congress with Hilary Clinton as President.
What can fix this?
1. The 2018 Elections need to be a complete revolt against the Republican Party. There needs to be a bounce back of the liberal left and an refutation of the Conservative Christian right, as secular instutions the right is dismantling by Christian Fascists get reassembled.
-Or-
The US Breaks up leading to civil war.
They lost because they ran a candidate who was widely disliked.
Trump was more disliked.
They lost because they didn't have a positive and encouraging vision like the one that President Trump presented to the nation.
Hillary presented her vision in sane, reasoned tones and was utterly ignored by the media as it wasn't zany enough. Trump rallies were marked by threatening journalists and yelling at enemies.
They lost because they tried to use identity politics to divide the electorate, instead of uniting all Americans like President Trump did.
Trump pandered exclusively to whites.
They lost because of themselves and their own actions
HRC got 3 million more votes than Trump. Factually, she lost because we don't live in a democracy.