70 MILLION Americans saw Russia's anti-Hillary / pro-Trump fake news posts

[manicholic 3,694]

On Facebook alone:

This week Facebook FINALLY acknowledged that Russian propagandists spent $100,000 on election ads.

It neglected to mention how many millions of people those ads reached.

Russian-funded covert propaganda posts on Facebook were likely seen by a minimum of 23 million people and might have reached as many as 70 million, according to analysis by an expert on the social-media giant’s complex advertising systems.

That means up to 28% of American adults were swept in by the campaign.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-facebook-fake-news-could-have-reached-70-million-americans?source=twitter&via=mobile

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

Honestly Russia is GENIUS for doing this. Americans are so misinformed I'm not surprised it worked. 

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

21 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Honestly Russia is GENIUS for doing this. Americans are so misinformed I'm not surprised it worked. 

it's genius and scary AF, cuz:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/4/16251226/russia-ai-putin-rule-the-world

[Yuuri 21,636]

Hopefully the next president in 2020, orders people to actually get to the bottom of this, and jail people.

[Aranea 10]

It's scary because this tactic is working pretty well for them, extremists from other countries (Brazil, for example, we will elect someone worse than Trump next year) are already copying this combo of fake news + heavy dox/threats to repel any opponents/activists and elect their shitty presidents/politicians. Seems like there's no punishment for this kind of thing.

 

 

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

Meanwhile, Facebook has refused to take any responsibility or comment to claims that their lack of filter on "fake news" and things of that sort may have swayed the election, last I checked