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I see a bunch of the pictures they advertised organized events. How did that work if these ads and supposedly pages were run by Russians? Were those events real
by jonpon 8y ago
I see a bunch of the pictures they advertised organized events. How did that work if these ads and supposedly pages were run by Russians? Were those events real? Who showed up? Who organized the protest on the ground?
- johnpowell 8y agoYes.. People showed up and got fighty. And this is a tiny blip compared to hacking into the DNC's email servers. I see a lot of these ads are stupid and people totally think that was all there was. The ads were the part of the iceberg you can see.
- jessaustin 8y agoWow that's so conspiracy-theory.
- RIMR 8y agoYeah, the ads were just the content they paid for. This doesn't take into account all the sockpuppet accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit that were designed to swing conversations in the direction they wanted them to go. Also, link aggregator sites (like our very own HN) are susceptible to vote manipulation, which can promote the content the attackers want, and demote the content they don't want. These ads were just to rope people in. You can see that "Black Matters" has 200k+ members. Those are people who are now getting information directly from the Kremlin on their feeds now.
- the_cat_kittles 8y agoi cannot believe we still havent seen a major news story on reddit. the night and day takeover of the_donald was very obvious to me. i wish someone would write an in depth piece on the nature, scale and timeline of the operation there.
- stevenwoo 8y agoNot a major news source but online sources already broke it and reddit responded to those reports a year after the election. https://www.thedailybeast.com/reddit-check-out-our-russian-trolls-accounts-2 https://www.thedailybeast.com/reddit-check-out-our-russian-t... https://www.inquisitr.com/4790689/reddits-the_donald-was-one-of-the-biggest-havens-for-russian-propaganda-during-2016-election-analysis-finds/ https://www.inquisitr.com/4790689/reddits-the_donald-was-one...
- stevenwoo 8y agoYoutube was pretty big as well, and Google ads were also utilized IIRC. The videos from the people from outside the US pretending to be Americans is a pretty sad impersonation unless one is kind of in a bubble looking for reinforcement of certain stereotypes/views.
- barake 8y agoHere's an article that talks a out two events, a protest and counter-protest: http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/26/media/russia-trolls-facebook-events/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/26/media/russia-trolls-facebook...
- pizza 8y agohttps://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-thirteen-russian-individuals-and-three-russian-companies-scheme-interfere https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-thirteen-r... > The Russians also recruited and paid real Americans to engage in political activities, promote political campaigns, and stage political rallies. The defendants and their co-conspirators pretended to be grassroots activists. According to the indictment, the Americans did not know that they were communicating with Russians.
- bradford 8y agoThe Radiolab podcast had an episode a while back where they interviewed some of the event participants. It was organized and funded via remote sources (they were implied Russians, although the organizers weren't interviewed), but attended by locals. Some of the locals that were interviewed felt duped, others were somewhat indifferent. Pretty good listen if you're interested in a deeper dive. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/curious-case-russian-flash-mob-west-palm-beach-cheesecake-factory https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/curious-case-russian-flash...
- stevenwoo 8y agoThey got gullible people to show up, and did all the organizing on Facebook from outside the country, sometimes for both sides of an issue /controversy they manufactured. http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-trolls-senate-intelligence-committee-hearing-2017-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-trolls-senate-intellig...