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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ron who wrote (73165)5/24/2018 3:00:35 PM
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  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 367269
 
The majority of the "russian" spend on Facebook ads came after the election, not before the election:
After the election the "russians" ran ads to get the "resistance" out to marches and stuff like that.
Their goal was always to incite divisions between the left and right in the USA, not to change the vote count.

Facebook ad executive Rob Goldman, via Twitter, said the majority of Russian-financed pro-Trump ad spending on Facebook didn’t show up until after the election.

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To: Ron who wrote (73165)5/24/2018 3:45:49 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 367269
 
The 'miniscule spend' was from information very early on. IIRC, that was what Facebook was able to identify as being Russian. Since a lot of that was paid in rubles. That was before the web of fake accounts and the various mechanisms for laundering money came to light.


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