Facebook: About 10 Million People Saw Ads Purchased By Russian Firm
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ESME CRIBB Published OCTOBER 2, 2017 6:47 PM
Facebook on Monday said an estimated 10 million people saw advertisements a Kremlin-linked Russian troll firm bought on the website over the course of the 2016 campaign.
An estimated 10 million people saw the ads. We were able to approximate the number of unique people (reach) who saw at least one of these ads, with our best modeling, Elliot Schrage, vice president of policy and communications, said in a blog post.
Schrage said that 44 percent of the ads were seen before the US election in November, while 56 percent were seen afterward.
Roughly 25% of the ads were never shown to anyone, Schrage said. Thats because advertising auctions are designed so that ads reach people based on relevance, and certain ads may not reach anyone as a result.
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ffr
(22,671 posts)So tRumpsters, you own this, all of this shit that's going down. OWN IT!
Willie Pep
(841 posts)I have been trying to cut down on my Internet use partially due to the prevalence of nonsense I see even when I am not looking for it. DU is one of the few decent communities out there.
samnsara
(17,636 posts)..my goal is for everyone to block me I use twitter a lot but I belong to several groups so mostly just chatting with friends. I am on DU off and on all day
byronius
(7,401 posts)And the blame, I think, lies squarely with the conservative ideology that strives desperately to keep them that way.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)But I did see fake accounts pushing Breitbart articles to the top of "Trending News" every single goddamn day
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)But they were everywhere, especially during the election.
They had either a pro-Sanders or anti-Clinton cover photo (usually one of those two), zero friends, and 100% of the posts would be political news articles. Usually Breitbart, Greenwald, or various other specious sources.
The poster's comments included with each article were usually copy/pasted, and identical from account to account.
msongs
(67,441 posts)is that "saw"? a link clicked and opened and watched in its entirety, is that "saw"
DK504
(3,847 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Because Facebook isn't about to own-up to sticking us with that illegal asshole Trump!
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Was about 77K. So yes, 4.4 Million could make a difference.