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Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:09 PM Nov 2017

Here 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)
1. The Union Square shows my apt building.
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:19 PM
Nov 2017

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)
2. I want a list of all the fake ads, so I can post them and say
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:27 PM
Nov 2017

"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)
3. no. I also want a list of all the actual fake news sites that were set up by people just looking
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:43 PM
Nov 2017

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)
4. Expect a response like
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:46 PM
Nov 2017

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.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
5. I remember being apalled when a fellow Dem told me Facebook
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:49 PM
Nov 2017

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)
9. Me, too! I've seen it in this forum, too! FB for NEWS? Seriously? I wouldn't even trust...
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 11:15 AM
Nov 2017

what is supposedly a statement of a real news organization. I would go straight to the news org. to my news. Not FB!

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
7. Me, too. I don't think I would have fallen for these, anyway. I get my news thru legit news orgs. nt
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 11:10 AM
Nov 2017

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
10. OMG these all read like a Russian wrote them!
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 11:16 AM
Nov 2017

The Deplorables really are clueless rubes if they couldn't see that!

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