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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums6 russian-spy created facebook pages were shared 340 million times.
They were anti-Hillary, designed to create fake news, involved Texas, an LGBT group, a "Blacktivist" account, etc. Those six accounts were a sample looked at by research journalists.
And there were many more accounts. Start with 340 million shares.
This story is on TRMS tonight.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)So we're looking at possibly tens of billions of views on Facebook alone of Russian propaganda.
There's no way that didn't have some influence.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)But the science says differently. People develop cognitive overload because they can't mentally filter through all of the bullshit. Then some of it ends up being accepted as true, real.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)from one of the guys involved in creating ads for Trump. They did testing with different colors and designs to see what type of ads have the best effect, marketing psychology type stuff. It will be interesting to see how closely people in the Trump camp worked with the Russians on their ads and targeting viewers.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)don't understand marketing, sales, etc, at a minimum.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)BAN fakebook and BAN Russia.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)No time for it. Junk comes across. I'll miss reading stuff from friends, but this system is too unregulated. I lied about my lication DOB, etc, anyway. I don't trust it.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)was about. It was simply about the prevalence of propaganda infiltrating US social media, and how in some cases, was made to look like local media ("Texit", etc).
Looking forward to mueller finding the specific tie-in to the campaign, to Trump.