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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere are some Russian ads that deceived users on FB and Instagram
Released today at the hearings of the tech giants. It's a slide show or you can click to show all. There are 26 ads.
https://techcrunch.com/gallery/here-are-15-of-the-russian-bought-ads-aimed-at-influencing-the-election/slide/1/
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I post this Bernie one to show the support given Bernie, but it's the vein of showing the varied "attacks" to our system. It splits a solid base.
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Here's one that's anti-Trump, believe it or not, I guess to drum up more divisiveness, and maybe get the Trumpers angrier. This ran AFTER the election.
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An anti-Bernie ad (to conservatives). Can't have the pro-Bernie ads convince conservatives to vote for him, can they?
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BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)I never saw his giant face when I looked out of my window though. However it was 1980 and the only things we saw were junkies and rats the size of a VW bug at Union Square back then.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)"If you liked, shared, commented, or forwarded any of these stories, you were duped by Russia into spreading propaganda and helped defeat our electoral system. Thanks and stop watching Fox. Go read The NY Times if you must consume any news at all. In fact, why don't you just switch it to the Gameshow Network and never ever ever ever go online ever again. Your country thanks you for stopping your traitors ways, you blinded by xenophobia, gullible doofus."
Too harsh?
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)to make a buck like the ones from Macedonia that didn't care about the elections, but found Trump voters more gullible and more likely to like, share and click to their website and give them google ad revenue.
http://www.npr.org/2016/12/14/505547295/fake-news-expert-on-how-false-stories-spread-and-why-people-believe-them
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Youse one of them thar librul snowflakes what duzn't know 'bout trooth. Alex Jones warned me 'bout you!
Might try a frying pan upside the head, though.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)was the best place to get political news. I am not a big Facebook fan and I couldn't believe anyone would believe news when they didn't know its source. Well, I hope a lot of people learned a lesson.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)what is supposedly a statement of a real news organization. I would go straight to the news org. to my news. Not FB!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)The Deplorables really are clueless rubes if they couldn't see that!