Facebook and Twitter worked just as advertised for Russia’s troll army

according to We've known for further than a year that Russian actors used media to have aTry and effect the 2016 presidential election. Now we realize further about those campaigns, thanks to a lengthy indictment with special counsel Robert Mueller that specifics the Russian effort. The key takeaway: The Russians pulled it off with the help of giant platforms like Facebook and Twitter. But beyond that, their election interference campaign was a textbook example of how a legitimate unite states business or publisher would innovate and dispense its own media campaign. So, yes, Facebook and Twitter were attacked with a nation state — just like Sony was the time it was hacked with NK in 2014.

Facebook and Twitter Are Ill-Equipped to Stop Repeat of 2016 Meddling

Until now, Facebook and Twitter had been criticized for missing Russian buys of unite states election advertesment out of their systems. And yet, it's digital payments service was the funding vehicle for the Russian operatives' deceptive campaigns — making their transactions appear in media companies' systems like any other buys in unite states dollars. It too undermines the major price of media business models: That people are who they tell they are. Facebook and Twitter purvey advertesment out of automated systems where brands could opt to reach certain audiences, and later discover how many people they reached. She is a co-sponsor of the fair advertesment Act, that would regulate on-line election ads.

Trump Cites Facebook Executive In 'Fake News' Twitter Rant Over Russian Indictments

referring to I have seen all of the Russian advertesment and I could tell extremely definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the major goal. Hard to ignore the reality from the Vice President of Facebook Ads, Rob Goldman!"The Fake break news Media never fails. Hard to ignore this reality from the Vice President of Facebook Ads, Rob Goldman! Nearly 150 mn Facebook and Instagram users may have seen advertesment and posts circulated with the group. Facebook has reported a new process for election advertesment that going to require that verification postcards be mailed back out of the U.S.

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