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The ads are a red herring (and uncomfortably visible for both parties). The real activity was on Facebook groups, viralizing anti-immigration and far-left news
by polkapolka 8y ago
The ads are a red herring (and uncomfortably visible for both parties).
The real activity was on Facebook groups, viralizing anti-immigration and far-left news, controling the narritive on 4chan pol and /r/the_donald, and botted up - and downvote brigades.
It was so blatant it was visible to a non-expert on information warfare like me.
The people doing this probably got paid about as much as a paid advertisement.
- lsc 8y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/politics/butina-guilty.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/politics/butina-guilty... https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/wikileaks-trump-mueller-roger-stone-jerome-corsi/576940/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/wikilea... I suspect we will see more of this sort of thing as the investigation continues, but of course, the investigation isn't over yet. My point is just that it was a lot more than 4chan and facebook.
- willholloway 8y agoMore than 62 million Americans voted for Donald Trump, maybe they were the ones up voting stories on 4chan and Reddit because they agree with him.