Posted on 10/09/2017 1:17:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has found evidence that Russian agents bought ads on its wide-ranging networks in an effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential campaign.
The findings from an internal inquiry draw Google further into the growing investigation of how social networks and technology services were manipulated by the Russian government to spread misinformation and sow division during the 2016 election.
Using accounts believed to be connected to the Russian government, the agents purchased $4,700 worth of search ads and more traditional display ads, according to a person familiar with the company’s ongoing inquiry who was not allowed to speak about it publicly. Google found the accounts through its own research and information provided by other technology companies.
Google found a separate $53,000 worth of ads with political material that were purchased from Russian internet addresses, building addresses or with Russian currency. It is not clear whether any of those were connected to the Russian government, and they may have been legitimately purchased by Russian citizens, the person said.
The messages of those ads spanned the political spectrum. One account spent $7,000 on ads to promote a documentary called “You’ve Been Trumped,” a film about Donald J. Trump’s efforts to build a golf course in Scotland along an environmentally sensitive coastline. Another spent $36,000 on ads questioning whether President Barack Obama needed to resign. Yet another bought ads to promote political merchandise for Mr. Obama.
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hilLIAR spent 1.2 BILLION, played for pay, and had all kinds of help from a complicit “media”
And a few thousand bucks on “ads” is “meddling”?
GMAFB
Or is it influence?
Collude?
The list of what they were advertising was pretty strange. It included stuff like BLM and Texas secession.
The Rooskies would fund the CPUSA to endorse H->! .
Russians are “believed to be connected” to $57,700 worth of adds. This comes from “a person not allowed to speak about it publicly.” That is an “anonymous source,” a term that has become comical with overuse. The left is becoming more and more pathetic as time goes by. How many billions were spent on the campaign and they are concerned about $57,700. As I recall that film on the golf course was anti-Trump.
OMG—Someone needs to go to jail for this. I’m so serial!
Meanwhile.....the DNC was trying to shop the fake Trump dossier to any News organization that would take the bait.
It means FAKE STORY.
An INDIVIDUAL...mind not a huge nation...but an INDIVIDUAl American can contribute $2700 to a campaign, and $5000 to a PAC.
So we are talking about the spending power of say a dozen people at 5000 each in total...only one of those people being the government, and the rest might even be Americans visiting Russia for all we know.
How many countries bought election ads? I’m sure Mexico, Israel, Saudi Arabia and a host of others bought ads, most of them supporting Clinton. From what I hear the Russian ads started in 2014, and supported Black Lives Matter, Jill Stein, and a bunch of other causes and candidates, for a total of 3,000 ad, some of which were running after the election and had nothing to do with the election.
In other words, Big Deal.
Great questions, I would bet Mexican, Cuban and a host of countries either bought adds that were anti-trump or they bought to push stories they thought might harm Trump.
Google found a separate $53,000 worth of ads with political material that were purchased from Russian internet addresses,
Hillary spent that much daily on her speech writers to come up with as many lies as possible.
...Using accounts believed to be connected to the Russian government...
Any proof of this or just guessing by some “expert”.
“$4,700 worth of search ads and more traditional display ads, according to a person familiar with the company’s ongoing inquiry who was not allowed to speak about it publicly. Google found the accounts through its own research and information provided by other technology companies....Google found a separate $53,000 worth of ads”
OMG!!! With that level of expenditure you can be sure the Russian influence was massive enough to influence things. /sarc
LOL -- $4.7K.
This is hugh and series.
Google found a separate $53,000 worth of ads...The messages of those ads spanned the political spectrum.
In other words, a wash.
and which side benefited, Right or RAT?
that’s more in line with what evil russia would want.
There are groups who spent millions on their candidate and did not win. How is it that alleged Russian agents spent $4,700 and their ads were so influential? What is their secret to advertising success?
Absolutely. Anything that divides Americans over unsolvable binary issues is a good thing for Putin. If violence breaks out, so much the better.
Russia has always been involved in American elections. They have funded divisive environmental groups for many decades. For the press to pretend this is new is pure fraud.
$4,700 on Ads against Hillary the Billion Dollar loser?
Say it isn’t so. LOL
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