Facebook commits Thought Crime. DUmpmonkiez howl 'TREASON'!

[dutch508]

Star Member Augiedog (1,234 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029564490

So now Facebook admits to treason in presidential election. Hmmm, wonder how that's feeling


in the world of fun facebooking stuff?

FB apparently sold ad time to a Russian Company during the election. OOOOOOoooooo...... 

dalton99a (11,831 posts)
2. Thousands of Facebook Ads Tied to Bogus Russian Accounts

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-ties-more-than-5000-political-ads-to-bogus-russian-accounts/
Thousands of Facebook Ads Tied to Bogus Russian Accounts

Amid ongoing concern over the role of disinformation in the 2016 election, Facebook said Wednesday it found that more than 5,000 ads, costing more than $150,000, had been placed on its network between June 2015 and May 2017 from "inauthentic accounts" and Pages, likely from Russia.

The ads didn't directly mention the election or the candidates, according to a blog post by Facebook's chief security officer Alex Stamos, but focused on "amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum—touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights." Facebook declined to discuss additional details about the ads.

Facebook says it had given the information to authorities investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. "We know we have to stay vigilant to keep ahead of people who try to misuse our platform," Stamos wrote in the post. "We believe in protecting the integrity of civic discourse, and require advertisers on our platform to follow both our policies and all applicable laws."

Speculation has swirled about the role Facebook played spreading fake news during the 2016 election. Senator Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has gone so far as to wonder whether President Trump's tech and data team collaborated with Russian actors to target fake news at American voters in key geographic areas. “We need information from the companies, as well as we need to look into the activities of some of the Trump digital campaign activities," Warner said recently.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facebook-says-it-sold-political-ads-to-russian-company-during-2016-election/2017/09/06/32f01fd2-931e-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html
Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election

Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that the social network has discovered that it sold ads during the U.S. presidential campaign to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings.

Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said.

A small portion of the ads, which began in the summer of 2015, directly named Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, the people said, although they declined to say which candidate the ads favored.

Most of the ads, according to a blog post published late Wednesday by Facebook’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, “appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum — touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.”

 

Star Member democratisphere (3,787 posts)
7. Facebook one of most destructive entities in the cyberworld.

Great f'ing job!

We should probably destroy it.

nini (14,430 posts)
8. Treason?

huh?

Star Member FailureToCommunicate (8,476 posts)
13. It's illegal to accept foreign money to influence U.S. elections

So maybe not technically "treason" but, sure is damn close.

So... It's not treason.

 

Star Member Corgigal (4,022 posts)
12. I think 100,000 is a low ball number.

I bet some personal accounts went up even more. Round them up. That total was all Facebook might be aware of.

Me wonders if they were tracking those good marketing employees. Tapes please.

Round up the fake FB accounts? 

Star Member sharedvalues (2,230 posts)
20. "Facebook was the Trump campaign's partner"

 

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This Facebook stuff is going to be big, everyone.

Now it's facebook's fault Grandma lost the election. 

Star Member sharedvalues (2,230 posts)
16. What we NEED: The ads. Facebook must disclose the ads Trump and the Russians ran

What lies were spread by Russia and by the Trump campaign?
Facebook knows exactly what those ads said. But none of us do.

We must demand Facebook release those ads publicly. Our democracy is based on public disclosure of political advertising.

 

Star Member Skittles (114,895 posts)
24. a pox on everyone who made that piece of shit a multi-billionaire

ugh

Markie Z. is one of them. Too bad he committed Thought Crime.

[thundley4]

Damn, my ad blockers probably prevented me from seeing the Russkies ads. 

However, the DUmmies are forgetting that Mark Zuckerbooger and his henchmen typically blocked or delayed posts by many legitimate conservative pages.

[SVPete]

Damn, my ad blockers probably prevented me from seeing the Russkies ads. 

However, the DUmmies are forgetting that Mark Zuckerbooger and his henchmen typically blocked or delayed posts by many legitimate conservative pages.

I trained my "eyes" nearly 20 years ago - when banner ads first became ubiquitous - to ignore banner ads and their fraternal twin, clickbait "news" stories. So I didn't/don't see whatever the heck ads FB claims were bought by and placed for Russians. I seriously doubt I'm even close to unique.

I realize DU folk believe Trump's voters were all either Everything-ist Deplorables or people duped by something and everything eeee-vile, but reality is that the vast majority of Trump voters voted against things Clinton did and stood for, and for things Trump said he would do.

[DumbAss Tanker]

It's funny how fast the 'Possibly Russian ads' in the original story became 'Probably Russian ads' and then 'Bogus Russian ads.'  It's also telling that FB declined to say who they favored, which reading between the lines means they were most likely a mixed bag sowing chaos fairly evenly.

And just because they sow chaos is not actually interfering in the election, I believe the Russians like anyone else can publish any BS they want to in our public media under normal First Amendment rules.  There's nothing in there that says 'Unless you're a furriner.'

[SVPete]

It's funny how fast the 'Possibly Russian ads' in the original story became 'Probably Russian ads' and then 'Bogus Russian ads.'  It's also telling that FB declined to say who they favored, which reading between the lines means they were most likely a mixed bag sowing chaos fairly evenly.

And just because they sow chaos is not actually interfering in the election, I believe the Russians like anyone else can publish any BS they want to in our public media under normal First Amendment rules.  There's nothing in there that says 'Unless you're a furriner.'

I don't know if laws against foreign people/entities supporting specific candidates have been tested in court (and, IIRC, Bill Clinton was on the receiving end of 100s of thousands of $$ in support from China), but per the DU OP, the allegedly Russian-bought ads neither endorsed a candidate nor advocated a position on a specific ballot initiative. So not only was treason not involved here, I don't think ANY laws were broken other than in the realm of DU-grade Progs' collective imagination.

[J P Sousa]

  they declined to say which candidate the ads favored 

Hmmm.....

[DumbAss Tanker]

Hmmm.....

Yeah.  I'm thinking that if it mainly was pro-Trump, that would have been the first horse out of the gate at this particular race.

[thundley4]

but reality is that the vast majority of Trump voters voted against things Clinton did and stood for, and for things Trump said he would do.

I think there was also a not so small number of Trump voters that are just fed up with the Democrat Party and the Republican Party.

They voted for Trump because he was an outsider and really and unknown quantity.  Either he would effect changes, or he'd crash the two party system.

Either one works for me.   

[Old n Grumpy]

Star Member Augiedog (1,234 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029564490

So now Facebook admits to treason in presidential election. Hmmm, wonder how that's feeling


in the world of fun facebooking stuff?

See, you can't trust those left wing progressive commies, all they want is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Wineslob]

Damn, my ad blockers probably prevented me from seeing the Russkies ads. 

However, the DUmmies are forgetting that Mark Zuckerbooger and his henchmen typically blocked or delayed posts by many legitimate conservative pages.

Just look at what they are doing to Outlaw Morgan. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Perhaps DUmmies should look up the actual law regarding treason.  Maybe Laserhaas can help.