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Facebook uncovers "Russia"-funded misinformation campaign

Do you not know the tragedies of human history? You are going to find much worse through the annals of time, just what your people have experienced. Nor my own people have not experienced the worst the world has to offer in its own cruelties.

Then again I don't let thugs online, or in person affect my ability to make rational decisions.

NAME me another place on earth, where 90% intellectual where exterminated by Muscovite commies?
 
Yes - the Constitution is for Americans, and they can be any color. It isn't for Russians, and it doesn't give them the rights and privileges given to Americans. Freedom of speech is guaranteed for Americans. .
It wasnt a yes or no question. I asked how you would litigate it. Yes does not answer that question.

Secondly if you did somehow litigate it, how would you enforce it? Russia is not bound by our laws. Are you gonna jail website owners?

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Uncovering "Russian" Propaganda With Former 'Russia" Today' Anchor
 
Oh, JARED. Don't "friend" Russian operatives on Facebook, and don't help them buy targeted ads.

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Looks like Jared has a firm grip on the situation ... :mrgreen:

Maddow: Jared Kushner may have helped Russian operatives with targeted political ads on Facebook

Maddow: Jared Kushner may have helped Russian operatives with targeted political ads on Facebook

Maddow read a quote from McClatchy News reporting, “investigators at the House and Senate Intelligence committees and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation – overseen by Jared Kushner – helped guide Russia’s sophisticated voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016.”

“They cite several people familiar with the parallel inquiries,” Maddow explained. “Peter Stone and Greg Gordon reporting for McClatchy investigators are focusing on whether Trump’s campaign pointed Russian cyber operatives to certain voting jurisdictions, in key states — areas where Trump’s digital team and operatives were spotting weakness in voter support for Hillary Clinton.”

“In that article, crucially, McClatchy spoke with a guy who had just left his post as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia at the Pentagon,” Maddow noted. “So he’s the senior Pentagon official responsible for Russia during the Russian attack on our election.”

“There appears to have been significant cooperation between Russia’s online propaganda machine and individuals in the United States who were knowledgeable about where to target the disinformation,” Maddow read.
 
I'm not very good at newspeak, what exactly does this mean in the article:

“The ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum,” the company said in a blog post published on Wednesday.

Appears--does it or doesn't it?
Amplifying--a divisive social and political message got amplified how?
divisive social and political message--divisive in what way and what were the messages?
across the ideological spectrum--so it was both sides or does spectrum mean something else?

What this a broad data mining exercise that got narrowed down to this or was it narrowly focused and they managed to find only for what they were looking?
Are there other groups or countries doing something similar or did they not look for that?

So remind me again, will wine help me or hurt me? I keep forgetting which news item I saw last.
 
If the Olgino trolls targeted certain voters in states where votes were crucial for a Trump win....it could imply that there was coordination with the Trump campaign since they were about the only ones that would've had that kind of information.

I find this untrue, most americans and probably the rest of the world that pays attention could tell which states were a forgone conclusion and which states were going to be a toss up. Places like Penn, Wisc, Florida, Ohio, & Mich were are thought to be close races so why wouldnt anyone who wanted a preticular canidate spend there money and influential information there.
 
I find this untrue, most americans and probably the rest of the world that pays attention could tell which states were a forgone conclusion and which states were going to be a toss up. Places like Penn, Wisc, Florida, Ohio, & Mich were are thought to be close races so why wouldnt anyone who wanted a preticular canidate spend there money and influential information there.

States yes voting districts no.
 
States yes voting districts no.

Seriously? I wouldnt know which voting districts but i can draw on google maps which areas of which states were for what candidant. This was a very polarized election. Inner cities Hillary, outer country Trump. Blacks/hispanics Hillary, Whites and half the asians Trump. America keeps good records of demographics for all areas and which areas voted for Obama in the last election and what the elections in their local sections are. So I find your arguement FALSE.
 
Seriously? I wouldnt know which voting districts but i can draw on google maps which areas of which states were for what candidant. This was a very polarized election. Inner cities Hillary, outer country Trump. Blacks/hispanics Hillary, Whites and half the asians Trump. America keeps good records of demographics for all areas and which areas voted for Obama in the last election and what the elections in their local sections are. So I find your arguement FALSE.


Not at all, you don't think the trump campaign would not know what local areas would be susceptible to influence and what newspaper bbs to target.
 
LOL. do you qualified cave - lies and primitive propaganda as a free speech? "Ridiculous lie on Russian TV: a child was crucified in Ukraine.Russia" keeps exciting hatred to Ukrainians by staging fake news. This time Russia decided to humiliate itself below the threshold of human dignity by lying that a small child was demonstratively EXECUTED BY CRUCIFIXION in Eastern Ukraine. This fake news was shown by the Central Russian TV Channel "ORT", which is the main TV channel in Russia and the only channel in most Russia's suburbs. Russian TV has fallen long ago from making disgraceful news to simply committing crimes. But it seems like there is no lower limit for Russia to descent further. "The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed"- said Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, whom Putin admires so much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiq9z... Russia closely follows the steps of fascist Germany of 1930's and the world will very soon have another hysterical nation ready for invasion of other countries."
Is this all about the same Ukraine that was overthrown by a US/CIA coup d'etat and installed a poortly oiled oligarchy to run the bankrupt Nation.? Poroshenko elected by 13% of eligible voters? Do you troll for this mixed bag of excrements? It is obvious that you attempt to distort the truth. I'd trust information out of RT long before giving an iota of credibility to propaganda from the crooks in Ukraine./
 
my question is simple, how we can keep our forum from paid - Olgino trolls and misinformation?

How do I know YOU aren't a paid troll? :2razz:
 
Oh, JARED. Don't "friend" Russian operatives on Facebook, and don't help them buy targeted ads.

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Looks like Jared has a firm grip on the situation ... :mrgreen:

Maddow: Jared Kushner may have helped Russian operatives with targeted political ads on Facebook

Maddow: Jared Kushner may have helped Russian operatives with targeted political ads on Facebook

Maddow read a quote from McClatchy News reporting, “investigators at the House and Senate Intelligence committees and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation – overseen by Jared Kushner – helped guide Russia’s sophisticated voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016.”

“They cite several people familiar with the parallel inquiries,” Maddow explained. “Peter Stone and Greg Gordon reporting for McClatchy investigators are focusing on whether Trump’s campaign pointed Russian cyber operatives to certain voting jurisdictions, in key states — areas where Trump’s digital team and operatives were spotting weakness in voter support for Hillary Clinton.”

“In that article, crucially, McClatchy spoke with a guy who had just left his post as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia at the Pentagon,” Maddow noted. “So he’s the senior Pentagon official responsible for Russia during the Russian attack on our election.”

“There appears to have been significant cooperation between Russia’s online propaganda machine and individuals in the United States who were knowledgeable about where to target the disinformation,” Maddow read.

shame on this Litwak, from such great city of GDL , but such as¤hole (((
 
my question is simple, how we can keep our forum from paid - Olgino trolls and misinformation?

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Facebook says it has discovered a Russian-funded campaign to promote divisive social and political messages on its network.

The company said $100,000 (£77,000) was spent on about 3,000
ads over a two-year period, ending in May 2017.

The ads did not back any political figures specifically, but instead posted on topics including immigration, race and equal rights.

Facebook said it was co-operating with a US investigation into the matter.

The advertisements directed users towards around 470 accounts that spread false information or were otherwise in breach of Facebook’s terms and conditions, the site said.

“The ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum,” the company said in a blog post published on Wednesday."

Facebook uncovers 'Russian-funded' misinformation campaign - BBC News

They have examples of these ads? I'd love to see what Russia was pushing.
 
Not at all, you don't think the trump campaign would not know what local areas would be susceptible to influence and what newspaper bbs to target.

Im saying not only did the Trump campaign know what local areas are susceptible to influence im saying that every country and everybody knew what areas were susceptible. So to draw a conclusion that Russia pedeled in areas that were toss ups is somehow a sign that it was colusion is moot.
 
Is this all about the same Ukraine that was overthrown by a US/CIA coup d'etat and installed a poortly oiled oligarchy ./
exactly, from your parallel world UFO-universe Ukraine .

pa

you forgot about "right sector"


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They have examples of these ads? I'd love to see what Russia was pushing.

"Russian propagandist site RT (Formerly Russia Today) published a story claiming that the Ukrainian popular greeting – Glory to Ukraine! – is “a well-known slogan used by World War II Nazi collaborators”. This greeting in fact came into use well before WWII and it became popular again in Ukraine after the 2013-2014 Maidan protests."

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"Scores of Russian media disseminated stories this week claiming that the US were conducting secret biological experiments in Ukraine resulting in some of the recent outbreaks of certain diseases in the country. All the publications use the same source for this fake story, the hacker group Cyber Berkut."

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Fake: Ukraine a US Biological Testing Site


"Russian Defense Ministry’s television channel Zvezda published a story on its web site claiming that Ukraine is killing its citizens by depriving them of medical help. Twisting the truth and manipulating quotes and figures Zvezda criticizes Ukraine’s Health Ministry and the reforms that acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun is enacting."

"StopFake #145 [ENG] with Luc Chenier

The latest edition of StopFake News with Kyiv Post CEO Luc Chenier. Among the disinformation debunked is a story a fringe American web site claiming that the US supports right radicals and fascists in Ukraine, we set the record straight on the Ukrainian navy which is definitely alive and kicking and deforestation in Ukraine, who’s doing it and who’s lying about it."

etc.

more:
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my question is simple, how we can keep our forum from paid - Olgino trolls and misinformation?

"
Facebook says it has discovered a Russian-funded campaign to promote divisive social and political messages on its network.

The company said $100,000 (£77,000) was spent on about 3,000
ads over a two-year period, ending in May 2017.

The ads did not back any political figures specifically, but instead posted on topics including immigration, race and equal rights.

Facebook said it was co-operating with a US investigation into the matter.

The advertisements directed users towards around 470 accounts that spread false information or were otherwise in breach of Facebook’s terms and conditions, the site said.

“The ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum,” the company said in a blog post published on Wednesday."

Facebook uncovers 'Russian-funded' misinformation campaign - BBC News

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Im saying not only did the Trump campaign know what local areas are susceptible to influence im saying that every country and everybody knew what areas were susceptible. So to draw a conclusion that Russia pedeled in areas that were toss ups is somehow a sign that it was colusion is moot.

Well except for the meetings,phone calls and emails that ultimately showed that tbe trunp campaign colluded in the timing of when to release information that would be most detrimental to their opponent.
 
"Russian propagandist site RT (Formerly Russia Today) published a story claiming that the Ukrainian popular greeting – Glory to Ukraine! – is “a well-known slogan used by World War II Nazi collaborators”. This greeting in fact came into use well before WWII and it became popular again in Ukraine after the 2013-2014 Maidan protests."

01-6.jpg


"Scores of Russian media disseminated stories this week claiming that the US were conducting secret biological experiments in Ukraine resulting in some of the recent outbreaks of certain diseases in the country. All the publications use the same source for this fake story, the hacker group Cyber Berkut."

Znimok-ekrana-2017-08-26-o-16.21.40.png

Fake: Ukraine a US Biological Testing Site


"Russian Defense Ministry’s television channel Zvezda published a story on its web site claiming that Ukraine is killing its citizens by depriving them of medical help. Twisting the truth and manipulating quotes and figures Zvezda criticizes Ukraine’s Health Ministry and the reforms that acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun is enacting."

"StopFake #145 [ENG] with Luc Chenier

The latest edition of StopFake News with Kyiv Post CEO Luc Chenier. Among the disinformation debunked is a story a fringe American web site claiming that the US supports right radicals and fascists in Ukraine, we set the record straight on the Ukrainian navy which is definitely alive and kicking and deforestation in Ukraine, who’s doing it and who’s lying about it."

etc.

more:
StopFake ? ???????????? ?????? ?????????? ??????????

I can see them focusing on the Ukraine, that makes sense.
 
I received this on my Newsfeed this morning...

When you click the link for this fantastic product, here's the headline. Drink one glass of this a day and . . .

Flatten Your Belly, Get Rid of Toxins, Speed Up Your Metabolism & Supercharge Your Weight Loss WITHOUT Strict Dieting!

Facebook has no integrity. They're simply a money machine.

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I can see them focusing on the Ukraine, that makes sense.

Ukraine -NATO-USA- GAYS- Globalists - Poland- Baltics- JewishbakersSoros- RefugesRape- EU-UK- Londonislamization -Obama- etc.
 
If your opinion is that selling ideas on facebook, even if you deem those ideas lies, might be a criminal act then I say if that is true then the laws are bad.

I say further that if the Russians did not violate our laws then you dont have much of a bitch.

That's the benchmark now, isn't it. For everything. Is it legal? Yes? Then stop complaining. Everything from advertising on social media to the behaviour of the highest leaders in the country, so long as it's not actually indictable, it's acceptable.
You sure you're not conservative? Because this reliance on legislation to define the limits of acceptable behaviour is a very conservative trait.
Know what? To hell with that. Lots of stuff that's perfectly legal shouldn't be tolerated and I don't mean it needs to be made illegal either. I mean it needs to have a spotlight shone on it, it needs to be pointed at and loudly protested and not left alone till the situation smartens up.
 
So remind me again, will wine help me or hurt me? I keep forgetting which news item I saw last.
I agree with your sentiment about click bait and "will wine help or hurt", etc.

The issues here are as follows:
1. facebook denied this for months, publicly. Now they finally admit it. That's no small thing.
2. The purchase of those adds may be in violation of U.S. election laws.
3. Based on it being a potential criminal act, it can be investigated, and they may find evidence that it was directed by, influenced by, in some way, someone from the U.S., which is a crime.

In these sorts of criminal investigations (Mueller, etc.), they have to find nodes, which open up doors to everything they connect to, in a sort of step by step discovery. they can't always proceed broadly, without getting something real first to justify a deeper dive.

Whether or not the methods Russia used to try and influence the election are good, bad, would have worked on you, etc., IMO are irrelevant. I look at nearly all right wing media and wonder "how in the world would anyone buy that B.S."? And yet hundreds of millions do...call me befuddled as well.
 
Ukraine -NATO-USA- GAYS- Globalists - Poland- Baltics- JewishbakersSoros- RefugesRape- EU-UK- Londonislamization -Obama- etc.

The main focus is Russian Propaganda in support of their military action in the Ukraine. Not a big shocker.
 
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