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Trump backs Facebook's VP of ads, who says Russia's meddling was designed to divide America
CNBC ^ | Feb 17 2018 | Chloe Aiello

Posted on 02/18/2018 3:59:36 AM PST by smileyface

Facebook has come under intense scrutiny as more information has surfaced about how Russian actors used those platforms to spread misinformation online. Facebook VP of ads Rob Goldman said Russian meddling was more to sow distrust and chaos in the U.S. political system than to specifically elect Trump.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: facebook; facebookvp; robgoldman; russia
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at bottom of article.... "Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to effect the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election. I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal," he wrote on Twitter.

To prove his point, he referenced an anti-Islam protest in Houston in November 2017. Russian trolls were later shown to have organized both sides of the protest.

1 posted on 02/18/2018 3:59:36 AM PST by smileyface
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CNBC seems to have missed the most important tweet... " Rob Goldman ‏ @robjective Feb 16 The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election. https://twitter.com/robjective/status/96468012200658124
2 posted on 02/18/2018 4:03:10 AM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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How does any of what these Russian trolls did not amount to nothing more than free speech?


3 posted on 02/18/2018 4:05:26 AM PST by SeeSharp
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To: smileyface

Before Hillary lost everyone knew Russia was doing this to divide America.

After she lost they needed a special prosecutor to enact their coup so they said trump colluded with Russians.


4 posted on 02/18/2018 4:07:59 AM PST by for-q-clinton
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To: smileyface

Regardless of whether the intent was to sow distrust or to influence the election, isn’t either justification for implementing the sanctions that Congress passed?


5 posted on 02/18/2018 4:09:11 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: smileyface

Why should anyone believe the “facts” as presented by Rosenstein/Mueller?

These people sought to overthrow Article II Section 1 of the Constitution.

Whatever they say, count on truth being elsewhere.


6 posted on 02/18/2018 4:10:07 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: smileyface
Trump backs Facebook's ads VP
"Most of the media coverage of Russian meddling alludes to an attempt to effect 2016's outcome.
I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was
*NOT* the main goal," the Facebook VP wrote on Twitter.

NEED TO KNOW: Mueller says he indicted the 13 Ruskis b/c they made "disparaging remarks" about candidate Hillary?

<><> when did Hillary's campaign report this criminality?

<><> who did they report it to?

<><> did the campaign notify voters about the plot?

7 posted on 02/18/2018 4:11:13 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Russian trolls were later shown to have organized both sides of the protest.

Wouldn't that make them moderates? THAT should be a crime.

8 posted on 02/18/2018 4:22:21 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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So according to Mueller, Russia tried to create divisions in America along class, religious, gender, and race.

I guess they didn’t realize the political left has been working that side of the street for awhile.


9 posted on 02/18/2018 4:25:58 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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Why would they screw with Hillary she is already selling us out, uranium one and Im sure a host of others we don’t know about yet and she believe like they do a communist dictator is what America needs


10 posted on 02/18/2018 4:30:29 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: smileyface

So, FACEBOOK colluded with the Russians to influence a U.S. presidential election..??


11 posted on 02/18/2018 4:32:35 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: fungoking

Muelller thinks we weren’t divded before the Russians came along?

What a stupid man. This is the IQ of the Deep State.


12 posted on 02/18/2018 4:33:11 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: fungoking

All the way back to the schemers at the Frankfurt School.


13 posted on 02/18/2018 4:34:31 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: SeeSharp
How does any of what these Russian trolls did not amount to nothing more than free speech?

If that is all they did, possibly. But what they did amounts to more than free speech. Sedition and likely breaking of other federal law.

14 posted on 02/18/2018 4:51:12 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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To: bankwalker

yep


15 posted on 02/18/2018 4:52:25 AM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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comment #2 has broken link for Goldman’s tweet, try

16 Feb: Twitter: Rob Goldman, Facebook
The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election.
https://twitter.com/robjective/status/964680123885613056

mind u, the whole story is ridiculous. DNC/Dossier, CTR trolls, Soros-funded activists etc etc.

how does all that compare with a few so-called Russian trolls?


16 posted on 02/18/2018 4:53:23 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: smileyface

Trump’s on a roll with tweets!

MAGA!!!!!!


17 posted on 02/18/2018 4:53:58 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
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CNBC are a disgrace for no reporting Goldman’s ““The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election”

the more he FakeNewsMSM are exposed, the digger the hold they dig for themselves.


18 posted on 02/18/2018 4:56:31 AM PST by MAGAthon
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CNBC are a disgrace for no reporting Goldman’s ““The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election”
I guess that’s just more of The News We (CNN) Kept To Ourselves [must read]

19 posted on 02/18/2018 5:12:05 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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“The point is to spoil it, to create the atmosphere of hate, to make it so stinky that normal people won’t want to touch it,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html
The internet agency was well known and exposed by buzzdeed in 2014, and other media outlets like The NY Times (above link) in 2015 and 2016.

Everybody knew they were trolls, even as far back as 2014.


20 posted on 02/18/2018 5:43:28 AM PST by tarpit
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