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Zuckerberg: I Feel Responsible For The ‘Different Ways’ Facebook Was Used To Cause, Uh, ‘Effects’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing calls to break up the company on the campaign trail, mounting antitrust inquiries from federal and state authorities, and the looming prospect of 2020 disinformation campaigns that could again kick his company’s arse. So he’s emerged from his gilded panic room more regularly as of late, this time sitting…
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Russia’s 2016 Twitter Propaganda Machine Was Carefully Built And Wildly Successful, Researchers Find
The Russian disinformation campaign leading up to the 2016 American presidential election was bigger in scope and coordination than reported earlier, according to new analysis from the American cybersecurity company Symantec.
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Here’s How Russian Trolls Turned Social Media Into A Weapon While Tech Giants Played Dumb
On Monday, two new independent studies commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee were made public, providing the most in-depth look at online Russian interference in the 2016 election to date. The studies found that social media networks haven’t been totally forthcoming with lawmakers, and the propaganda efforts were decidedly designed to elect Donald Trump as…
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All 3500 Russia-Linked Facebook And Instagram Ads Released By US House Democrats
For more than a year, we’ve heard that Russian operatives used Facebook groups and targeted ads to influence the 2016 US election and sow discord in the United States. Facebook has declined to release the ads to the public, but today, Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee dropped a data dump of 3500 examples…