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Did not they just buy ads on Facebook instead of hacking it?

• untog 9y ago
  You'll notice the post you are replying to didn't use the word "hack", it said "attempts to influence our elections and sew division", which is something Facebook ads would do quite well. I agree that hysteria over "election hacking" is tedious, but so is blanket dismissal that a foreign state actor would have an interest in influencing a US election. Of course they would.
• heartbreak 9y ago
  Why would you assume that a single actor used a single approach in attacking the election process? These election systems would have some extremely useful data for targeting those Facebook ad campaigns: https://www.apnews.com/cb8a753a9b0948589cc372a3c037a567 https://www.apnews.com/cb8a753a9b0948589cc372a3c037a567
• _jal 9y ago
  They also attempted hacking (according to the intelligence services) 21 state's election systems, with varying degrees of success. Pretty sure that qualifies as 'unauthorized access'.
  • zaroth 9y ago
    The Washington Post basically exposed this as "Fake News". https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/23/what-we-know-about-the-21-states-targeted-by-russian-hackers/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/23/wh... And in case you're interested, here it is from a more colorful source; https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia-story-falls-apart-is-skepticism-permissible-yet/ https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia...