President Trump uses tweets on Russian ad spending from Facebook ads VP Rob Goldman to call reporters covering election interference the “Fake News Media”
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Discussion
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@robjective
Rob Goldman
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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://newsroom.fb.com/...
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@realdonaldtrump
Donald J. Trump
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The Fake News Media never fails. Hard to ignore this fact from the Vice President of Facebook Ads, Rob Goldman! http://twitter.com/...
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@robjective
Rob Goldman
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Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to effect the outcome of the 2016 US election. I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal.
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@robjective
Rob Goldman
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The main goal of the Russian propaganda and misinformation effort is to divide America by using our institutions, like free speech and social media, against us. It has stoked fear and hatred amongst Americans. It is working incredibly well. We are quite divided as a nation.
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@justinhendrix
Justin Hendrix
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Facebook executive @robjective gave everyone from InfoWars to Brad Parscale to Donald Trump Jr. to the President himself a perfect propaganda present today. Sometimes you enable propaganda, sometimes you become propaganda. pic.twitter.com/SlTAMsgwl7
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@robjective
Rob Goldman
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Fair point. I am only speaking here about the Russian behavior on Facebook. That is the only aspect that I observed directly.
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@realdonaldtrump
Donald J. Trump
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“I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal."Rob GoldmanVice President of Facebook Ads http://twitter.com/...
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@realdonaldtrump
Donald J. Trump
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Funny how the Fake News Media doesn't want to say that the Russian group was formed in 2014, long before my run for President. Maybe they knew I was going to run even though I didn't know!
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@robjective
Rob Goldman
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Very excited to see the Mueller indictment today. We shared Russian ads with Congress, Mueller and the American people to help the public understand how the Russians abused our system. Still, there are keys facts about the Russian actions that are still not well understood.
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@pkafka
Peter Kafka
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Good. But I don't think the problem with the tweets is that the president cited them - it's that they are missing important context, and suggest that there's an easy solution to all of this, and that it's not Facebook's responsibility.
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@anildash
Anil Dash
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This is true. Tech leaders are not yet used to understanding that these statements have grave social & political impact. But it's incontrovertible. http://twitter.com/...
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@juddlegum
Judd Legum
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1. Facebook needs to ask themselves why their “VP of Ads” is making public statements that contradict the conclusions of the special counsel and aid Trump's longstanding effort to diminish the Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 election http://twitter.com/...
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@boztank
Emotional Support Boz
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I suspect we will. I think if you read the thread from Rob it makes fair points. Someone (even a president) quoting it without full context isn't obviously the most important thing to prioritize in my opinion.
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@bmorrissey
Brian Morrissey
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RIP Facebook ad execs on Twitter, 2018-2018 http://twitter.com/...
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@bobmcmillan
Robert McMillan
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Facebook has been saying this to anyone who would listen since September, and academics who study Russian influence operations were saying that this is the end-game since long before that. http://twitter.com/...
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@emilybell
Emily Bell
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A tough one for Facebook - it set out to disrupt the methods of distributing information (including institutions!) and succeeded beyond all expectations. It just lacked the imagination or experience to think through what that really meant... http://twitter.com/...
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@alexburnsnyt
Alex Burns
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Unpack how self-serving this is: classing “social media” with “free speech,” presenting it as an essentially American “institution” that Russia has bent to its advantage rather than a product made for profit & deployed without safeguards http://twitter.com/...
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@evgenymorozov
Evgeny Morozov
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Incredible: Facebook's VP says social media is an American institution, like free speech...No wonder, then, that very institution (like free speech?) belongs to a handful of American corporations. http://twitter.com/...
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@pkafka
Peter Kafka
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Incidentally: Most powerful man in the world quote-tweeting a Facebook exec to make an argument is why some people insist that Twitter should be a much, much more valuable business. http://twitter.com/...
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@pkafka
Peter Kafka
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Though this will make a convenient slide in many social media consultants' pitch decks. http://twitter.com/...
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@pkafka
Peter Kafka
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Facebook has earned praise for letting its execs sound off on Twitter. They should keep doing it, but I wonder if they will after this. http://twitter.com/...
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@danpfeiffer
Dan Pfeiffer
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This is probably not what the Facebook PR team imagined when it woke up this morning. http://twitter.com/...
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@mat
Mat Honan
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Good call for Facebook execs to be v. active on Twitter, because that way they can get to know how this platform works too. http://www.buzzfeed.com/...
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@kevinroose
Kevin Roose
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This thread by FB's VP of ads would have you believe that:— most of Russia's work was through ads (it wasn't)— FB execs were eager to investigate Russian meddling and release findings (they weren't)— future disinfo ops won't be able to game a verification process () http://twitt…
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@husca
Caitlin Hu
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by design, postcards are literally the WORST way to transmit a secret code @facebook @robjective https://qz.com/...
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Vox
P.R. Lockhart
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The Mueller indictment offers new details on how Russian trolls stoked racial tensions
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@baratunde
@baratunde
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I'm reading the Mueller indictments in the original PDF-legalease format. All the way through, because I'm not a Republican member of Congress and think this is actually important.
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@jesselynradack
@jesselynradack
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The only one in jail over Russia aiding #Trump campaign? The brave Veteran who allegedly exposed it: #RealityWinner http://www.nytimes.com/...
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@kenvogel
Kenneth P. Vogel
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SCOOP: The @FEC had launched its own investigation into the RUSSIAN Internet Research Agency & whether it “may have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971,” per September letter to Mikhail Bystrov, who was indicted by MUELLER today. http://www.nytimes.com/... http://t…
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@tonyromm
Tony Romm
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we've a clearer sense as to how agents with Russia's IRA learned about American politics (they came here) and spread their propaganda (unwitting help from social media users including Trump campaign staffers)—we have clarity on how they paid (stolen American credentials)
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@om
@om
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Good to see Facebook is continuing to be excellent at using spin to absolve itself of all sins by using carefully parsed statements. http://twitter.com/...
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@business
@business
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Mueller's indictment says Russians used PayPal to buy Facebook ads http://www.bloomberg.com/... http://twitter.com/...
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@selenalarson
Selena Larson
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Defendants allegedly used U.S.-based computer infra to hide the Russian origin of their activities. Also bought ads under U.S. names and staged rallies while posing as grassroots entities. http://twitter.com/...
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@alfredwkng
Alfred
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BREAKING: Justice Dept issues indictment for Internet Research Agency, the Russian social media troll factory: https://www.justice.gov/... pic.twitter.com/r5IFqmiiBi
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@sarahmmimms
Sarah Mimms
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After media outlets started reporting that Facebook was working with special counsel's office to find these ads, the IRA started destroying evidence https://www.buzzfeed.com/...
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@gerritd
Gerrit De Vynck
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Mueller indictment says the Internet Research Agency agents were trading cryptocurrencies, because of course pic.twitter.com/3FMtQKmdCb
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@tsrandall
Tom Randall
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Muller alleges they “employed hundreds” of people for online campaign of running fictitious accounts. They had a graphics department, a data analysis department, an SEO department, an IT department, and a finance department. That's more than many media organizations can claim
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@tonyromm
Tony Romm
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Rosenstein making clear right now that the indictment doesn't say Americans cooperated knowingly with IRA efforts
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@cnbcnow
Cnbc Now
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The Mueller indictment says that the defendants allegedly, by early to mid 2016, were “supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump ... and disparaging Hillary Clinton.” http://cnb.cx/2GiuIOA
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@reuters
@reuters
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MORE: U.S. says Russian entities began interfering in U.S. political processes, including 2016 election, as early as 2014 pic.twitter.com/AKOwpUUMSm
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@reuters
@reuters
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MORE: Defendants, in communicating with U.S.-based group, were advised to 'focus their activities on ‘purple states like Colorado, Virginia and Florida’ - indictment pic.twitter.com/8N4jSaFxTt
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@violetblue
@violetblue
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They created FB group United Muslims of America. Planned and promoted a rally. Recruited a US citizen to go AND take photo holding sign w/fake Clinton quote promoting Sharia law for “freedom.” Then posted that photo on the FB page saying Muslim voters had a tough choice to make. …
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@reuters
@reuters
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MORE: U.S. says some defendants, posing as U.S. persons, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign - indictment pic.twitter.com/ayKkNhRQ7f
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@sbg1
Susan Glasser
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Reading the Mueller indictment of alleged Russian election hacking team now. Much to digest. One striking fact: this operation began in 2014, amid US and world condemnation of Russia's armed takeover of Crimea. Later morphed to pro-Trump operation: http://bit.ly/2CoyuDD
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@selenalarson
Selena Larson
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Indictment says the U.S. social media operations fell under something called the “translator project.” More than 80 Internet Research Agency employees were assigned to it by July 2016 pic.twitter.com/SeOZDqrWNh
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@reutersbiz
@reutersbiz
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PayPal says it worked with law enforcement prior to indictment of 13 Russian nationals, says it is ‘intensely focused on combating and preventing the illicit use of our services’ http://reut.rs/2obVhxl
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@lennutrajektoor
@lennutrajektoor
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Pay attention to @tggrove write-up on Prigozhin, Putin's personal chef w criminal past & real conviction who runs PMC Wagner and gets 25% from each seized oil factory revenue. There's a reason why his criminally acting troll-factory got indicted by Müller. http://twitter.com/...
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@timjhanrahan
Tim Hanrahan
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Amazing story. 2011: Russian businessman hires an Internet troll army to fight parents angry over rotten-smelling school lunches. 2018: Same businessman indicted over allegations tied to Russia's social-media tampering in U.S. election. http://www.wsj.com/...
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@wsj
The Wall Street
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Yevgeny Prigozhin was a hot-dog vendor in St. Petersburg who rose to the center of allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election http://www.wsj.com/...