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Eugene

(62,646 posts)
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 02:56 PM Oct 2017

Top House Intelligence Democrat intends to make sample of Russia-bought Facebook ads public

Source: Reuters

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Top House Intelligence Democrat intends to make sample of Russia-bought Facebook ads public

Reuters Staff
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said on Monday he intended to make a “representative sampling” of Facebook Inc political ads believed to have been purchased by Russia available to the public later this month and that he hoped to make them all public eventually.

Representative Adam Schiff confirmed that his committee, which is investigating Russian interference in last year’s presidential election, had received from Facebook more than 3,000 politically divisive ads the social media company found on its network that it said appeared in the months before and after the November 2016 U.S. election.

Reporting by Patricia Zengerle and Dustin Volz; Editing by Phil Berlowitz


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-facebook/top-house-intelligence-democrat-intends-to-make-sample-of-russia-bought-facebook-ads-public-idUSKCN1C72KD
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Top House Intelligence Democrat intends to make sample of Russia-bought Facebook ads public (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2017 OP
Am hoping this will open some eyes. I don't see a single person admitting they were influenced yet bettyellen Oct 2017 #1
A "friend" on fbook liked all of those and they showed up SonofDonald Oct 2017 #2
 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
1. Am hoping this will open some eyes. I don't see a single person admitting they were influenced yet
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 02:59 PM
Oct 2017

I heard them spew crap from RT and Sputnik for much of last year

SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)
2. A "friend" on fbook liked all of those and they showed up
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 03:06 PM
Oct 2017

On my "news" feed everyday for months, I unfriended her and they went away, I mean she was liking every flippin anti-Hillary ad on earth and they ended up being at least 75 percent of my " news " feed.

There had to have been a bunch of Russian sourced ads in there, they were just so toxic it wasn't funny.

I wonder how she feels now knowing she was part of spreading the hate?, she told me she didn't like dumpf either so I asked her why there wasn't any anti-dumpf posts from her?.

She had no answer, so I called her a liar and dumped her ass, a woman I had known for over 40 years, no loss.....

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