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Facebook handed Russia-linked ads over to Mueller under search warrant

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Shard

XBLAnnoyance
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/15/media/facebook-mueller-ads/index.html

Facebook gave Mueller and his team copies of the 3,000 ads it discovered on its site linked to a Russian troll farm, as well as detailed information about the accounts that bought the ads and the way they were targeted, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN.

The disclosure, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may give Mueller's office a fuller picture of who was behind the ad buys and how the ads may have influenced voter sentiment during the 2016 election.

Facebook did not give copies of the ads to members of the Senate and House intelligence committees when it met with them last week on the grounds that doing so would violate their privacy policy, sources with knowledge of the briefings said. Facebook's policy states that, in accordance with the federal Stored Communications Act, it can only turn over the stored contents of an account in response to a search warrant.

"We continue to work with the appropriate investigative authorities," Facebook said in a statement to CNN.

Facebook informed Congress last week that it had identified 3,000 ads that ran between June 2015 and May 2017 that were linked to fake accounts. Those accounts, in turn, were linked to the pro-Kremlin troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency.
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FunkyMunkey

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a nice big fat fuck you to facebook and zuckerberg in particular from me. you sold out for that money, helping sway a critical election and send the country back decades for a few lousy extra dollars on top of the mountain you already have, and then for zuckerberg to act all innocent and holy about the situation. no man, no. i WANT him to try to run in 2020 with this shit around his neck, just to drag him
 
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Herr Schwarz

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Dang no wonder Trump didn't spend much during the campaign.

Russia throwing mad rubles. Making it rain on Facebook.


Although as a counter point this shit worked due to the complete and abject failure of US education systems.

Did they not teach critical thinking? Did they not teach History and the critical importance of understanding source material? Questioning author intent?

I guess fucking not. It's a perfect storm of anti intellectualism. A culture in which disinformation absolutely thrives.
 
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Random Human

They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
My tinfoil hat theory that Trump's data team, led by Kushner, helped with Russia's propaganda is so close... so close...
 
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Zolo

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The information should be stored well because this type of info is going to be needed long past Trump.
 
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KernelPanic

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Karsticles said:
He should hang alongside Trump.
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They didn't have a problem with it. They'll take your money, any currency. All about value for the shareholders.

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Familienoberhauptvogel

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Herr Schwarz said:
Dang no wonder Trump didn't spend much during the campaign.

Russia throwing mad rubles. Making it rain on Facebook.


Although as a counter point this shit worked due to the complete and abject failure of US education systems.

Did they not teach critical thinking? Did they not teach History and the critical importance of understanding source material? Questioning author intent?

I guess fucking not. It's a perfect storm of anti intellectualism. A culture in which disinformation absolutely thrives.
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we're talking about people able to listen to trump and not only agree with what incorrigible stuff the moron is saying but cheer for it.
 
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royalan

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I've noticed it all this week; slowly but steadily, people are turning their attention to Facebook and the role it played in 2016.

If Zuckerberg really was planning to run in 2020, he can put that thought out of his mind now.
 
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Iolo

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FunkyMunkey said:
a nice big fat fuck you to facebook and zuckerberg in particular from me. you sold out for that money, helping sway a critical election and send the country back decades for a few lousy extra dollars on top of the mountain you already have, and then for zuckerberg to act all innocent and holy about the situation. no man, no. i WANT him to try to run in 2020 with this shit around his neck, just to drag him
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He will run and get a billion dollars of free targeted advertising on Facebook.
 
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subrock

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Random Human said:
My tinfoil hat theory that Trump's data team, led by Kushner, helped with Russia's propaganda is so close... so close...
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Speaking of Kushner, I haven’t heard anything about that guy since the spotlight swung onto him. Kelly must’ve yanked the leash pretty hard.
 
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Lightning_Roller

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royalan said:
I've noticed it all this week; slowly but steadily, people are turning their attention to Facebook and the role it played in 2016.

If Zuckerberg really was planning to run in 2020, he can put that thought out of his mind now.
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Oh definitely. He is fucked. And this whole thing is completely fucked.
 
BeforeU

BeforeU

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
PandaPandaPanda said:
if this leads to anything, I hope this shuts down any idea of Mark Zuckerberg running for president in 2020
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I mean Trump is a president. After all he has done, he is still a president. And this is supposed to stop Zuckerberg to run if he wishes to? lmao
 
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Ogodei

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Shit's really coming up bad for facebook lately between the coddling of white racists with their moderation system plus them selling ads to Russian agencies as well as selling ads based on racist keywords.
 
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Linkura

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BeforeU said:
I mean Trump is a president. After all he has done, he is still a president. And this is supposed to stop Zuckerberg to run if he wishes to? lmao
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Where the fuck did him running for President come from anyway?

Ogodei said:
Shit's really coming up bad for facebook lately between the coddling of white racists with their moderation system plus them selling ads to Russian agencies as well as selling ads based on racist keywords.
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One of my fb friends is super liberal and posts a lot, mainly to tell racists to fuck off. And yet their system has shut down her posting abilities from time to time because they detect it as possible spam. Racists however, are free to post.
 
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BoboBrazil

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Ogodei said:
Shit's really coming up bad for facebook lately between the coddling of white racists with their moderation system plus them selling ads to Russian agencies as well as selling ads based on racist keywords.
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Peter Thiel is a Trump supporter so...
 
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SolarPowered

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ascii42 said:
Hmm, that seems like something that should be a red flag.
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I see what you did there.
BoboBrazil said:
Peter Thiel is a Trump supporter so...
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Makes you wonder how many American oligarchs are low key offering their support to Putin's Russia. These people have gotten so obscenely rich they don't really need to worry about being held accountable in a meaningful way anymore. Wouldn't surprise me if we start seeing more of these rich libertarian types flirting with treason in the coming decades. Trump is just the beginning imo.
 
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royalan

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kirblar said:
Good god that would have been so hilarious though.
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God...

The attack ads would be savage.

He would be wholesale rejected by probably both parties, but DEFINITELY the Democrats.

Any halfway decent politician would eat him alive over the Facebook issue.

I...kinda want to see it.
No, I don't.

BeforeU said:
I mean Trump is a president. After all he has done, he is still a president. And this is supposed to stop Zuckerberg to run if he wishes to? lmao
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As much as I hate this timeline, Trump's appeal makes sense for the racists and the apathetic who voted for him.

Trump is, and always has been, a popular pop culture figure, loudmouth, and overt racist. That's appealing to a lot of people in this country.

Zuckerberg has none of that going for him. He has no real constituency. And on top of that, there's growing evidence that his company played an indirect role in fucking over our country.
 
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Shadow Puppetry

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Linkura said:
Where the fuck did him running for President come from anyway?



One of my fb friends is super liberal and posts a lot, mainly to tell racists to fuck off. And yet their system has shut down her posting abilities from time to time because they detect it as possible spam. Racists however, are free to post.
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Tell me about it, get it a lot and death threats simply because I'm against Trump but FB is all lol it's not against the standards. Hell, they don't even bother looking into when you escalate the situation. There's a few cases that haven't been touched from months ago.
 
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jellies_two

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Zuckerberg bought all the properties around his property in California for reasons of family privacy.

The way this is going, he will have to buy all the properties around those as well, and then build a wall, and then stay in the middle, for the rest of his career.
 
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KernelPanic

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Ogodei said:
Shit's really coming up bad for facebook lately between the coddling of white racists with their moderation system plus them selling ads to Russian agencies as well as selling ads based on racist keywords.
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Russians own like 5% of Facebook already, more than Thiel.

http://whoownsfacebook.com/

Russian Internet holding company, Digital Sky, grabbed 1.96% of Facebook stock in May of 2009 when it spent $200 million at a $10 billion valuation. Digital Sky, which is largely backed by a wealthy Russian oligarch, is the owner of Facebook clone VKontakte, the largest social network in Russia.
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FunkyMunkey said:
a nice big fat fuck you to facebook and zuckerberg in particular from me. you sold out for that money, helping sway a critical election and send the country back decades for a few lousy extra dollars on top of the mountain you already have, and then for zuckerberg to act all innocent and holy about the situation. no man, no. i WANT him to try to run in 2020 with this shit around his neck, just to drag him
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Let's not play a game of "run and we'll watch you lose" again.
 
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sir_kevith

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I wonder how deep this stuff goes? With Flynn and his kid promoting Pizzagate bullshit you gotta wonder how much of that garbage has Russian origins.
 
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Slayven

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royalan said:
I've noticed it all this week; slowly but steadily, people are turning their attention to Facebook and the role it played in 2016.

If Zuckerberg really was planning to run in 2020, he can put that thought out of his mind now.
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But I looked forward to his awkward videos where he pretends to understand human emotions. ANd the debates, good god the debates
SatelliteOfLove said:
It's obvious now: media, Congress, and Mueller's team have been trickling this out and FB took the bait just like Don Jr did.

"Full disclosure or buh bye" always.



Except helping immigrants :O
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Mueller following the money, and the money will always tell.
 
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dabig2

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Slayven said:
But I looked forward to his awkward videos where he pretends to understand human emotions. ANd the debates, good god the debates


Mueller following the money, and the money will always tell.
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Mueller be like:
"Follow the memes, you get trolls, marks, and shitposts. But you start to follow the money, and you don't know where the fuck it's going to take you."
 
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Za-Neen-Jya

Member
Poor Zuckerberg. Imagine creating a website so you can creep on college girls and it ends up subverting American democracy. This shit is so absurd.
 
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Killthee

helped a brotha out on multiple separate occasions!
FunkyMunkey said:
a nice big fat fuck you to facebook and zuckerberg in particular from me. you sold out for that money, helping sway a critical election and send the country back decades for a few lousy extra dollars on top of the mountain you already have, and then for zuckerberg to act all innocent and holy about the situation. no man, no. i WANT him to try to run in 2020 with this shit around his neck, just to drag him
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Yeah I want to see him sweat on National tv.

Darkness said:
Are there any examples of these ads? I never saw one on FB.
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More here https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=SnVYb1JNSEltTWtVWVNtaXROM3puelNlUWtPSnJn
 
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aspiegamer

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Hoooooooly shit. Well, it can't be said Mueller isn't doing an incredibly thorough job looking into every angle of this stuff. Like, I'm legit impressed he'd go so far as to hunt down info on this. This is stuff typical law enforcement either doesn't give a shit about or doesn't remotely understand.
 
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