Russian meddling...
They were shared and promoted from pages with titles like "Back the Badge," "Brown United Front," and "Woke Blacks," William Turton reports on vicenews.com.
Their purpose? To spread clicky, viral and divisive memes on divisive issues like race, religion, gender, the Second Amendment, and Hillary Clinton, both before and after the 2016 presidential election, Turton wrote.
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released the entire trove of 3,519 ads that Facebook identified as having been promoted by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm that aimed to sow division and fear, from April 2015 well into 2017, he added.
Along with the ads themselves, the House committee gave vicenews the Kremlin's biggest hits: the ads that were clicked, commented on, and shared a lot more than others.
For more of a timely new report: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/pavya8/here-are-russian-trolls-10-most-viral-facebook-posts-targeting-americans?utm_source=vicenewsfb
"Back the Badge," 1,334,544 impressions, October 2016.
They were shared and promoted from pages with titles like "Back the Badge," "Brown United Front," and "Woke Blacks," William Turton reports on vicenews.com.
Their purpose? To spread clicky, viral and divisive memes on divisive issues like race, religion, gender, the Second Amendment, and Hillary Clinton, both before and after the 2016 presidential election, Turton wrote.
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released the entire trove of 3,519 ads that Facebook identified as having been promoted by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm that aimed to sow division and fear, from April 2015 well into 2017, he added.
Along with the ads themselves, the House committee gave vicenews the Kremlin's biggest hits: the ads that were clicked, commented on, and shared a lot more than others.
For more of a timely new report: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/pavya8/here-are-russian-trolls-10-most-viral-facebook-posts-targeting-americans?utm_source=vicenewsfb
"Brown United Front," 968,768 impressions, December 2016.
"Woke Blacks," 752,179 impressions, December 2016.
Photos: vicenew.com
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