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Yes.. 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

Yes.. 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 ago
Wow that's so conspiracy-theory.
RIMR 8y ago
Yeah, 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 ago
  i 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 ago
    Not 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 ago
  Youtube 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.

jessaustin 8y ago

Wow that's so conspiracy-theory.

RIMR 8y ago

Yeah, 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 ago
i 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 ago
  Not 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 ago
Youtube 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.