Posted on 05/10/2018 8:27:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Democrats from the House Intelligence Committee released several-thousand ads that had been run on Facebook as part of Russia’s efforts to interfere in U.S. politics from mid-2015 through August of last year. We broke down the numbers behind those posts, including how many clicks they got each month and how much they cost.
We thought it would be interesting, though, to also pull out the most popular ads that were introduced each month to get a broad sense of which advertising efforts were actually effective. Below, the ad campaigns initiated in each month from June 2015 to August 2017 that received the most overall clicks. (No data is available for June 2017.)
We also included information about whom each ad was meant to target. The people purchasing the ads were often specific in where they wanted the ads to run and whom they wanted to target, usually based on political views or racial identity. Notice, though, that none of the most popular ads are specifically political, talking about Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Instead, they’re broadly political, meant, it seems, to encourage association with divisive issues in U.S. politics.
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Sounds like a typical CIA report published in their favorite propaganda outlet.
The Russians truly are superior. $100K and they won an election.
Hillary didn’t really need $650 million after all.
FR was overrun with Russkie bots during the Crimean crisis and afterwards, and it was quite obvious who those people were. "Oh noes! Americans would have to figure out how ridiculous Russian opinions were, ALL BY THEMSELVES!"
That must be why TheirGal lost.
21,000 clicks turned the election?
Don’t think so WashPoo.
Russians colluded to subvert Hillary.
Through ads few saw. Brilliant!
Putin got a lot of value for his FB ad budget.
Those ads have changed me into a patriotic, gay, anti-gun, closed border, African-American who lives in my parent’s basement.
Even if Russia posted ads, that doesn’t prove any collusion. Russia didn’t want Trump to win so much as they wan’t the Soros puppet Hillary to lose. Soros tried to overthrow Putin. Putin doesn’t like being screwed with.
$650 million plus all the worlds free press/tv/Hollywood, the power of the Executive Branch, including all the great 3 letter agencies.
Awesome
I need lithium too.
o, posting divisive bits in social media for a few thousand bucks constitutes “election interference.”
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But having the FBI place a spy in the opposition campaign headquarters is all perfectly normal. It’s not the least bit creepy. Or a gross misuse of the government.
How do we know that wasn’t posted by John Brennan?
He needs to prove he didn’t do it...
#12. I’m sure that the Blacktivist comment/photo really got me to change my vote from Richard Spencer to Hillary Clinton.
I was always going to vote for the race-baiter, fearmongering, gender warfare, politically corrupt criminal - HILLARY. /sarc
By the way, who is Richard Spencer and why should we care? /sarc, double secret sarc and a hearty FU RS.
Rigged in Hillary's favor - and still she lost...
How is any of this supportive of Trump? Looks to me like they were trying to help the Arkansas medusa.
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