Why Facebook is afraid of Robert Mueller (WP)

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/02/19/why-facebook-is-afraid-of-mueller/
Why Facebook is afraid of Robert Mueller
By Anne Applebaum | February 19 at 9:52 AM

Who is afraid of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III? President Trump is afraid. So are those who worked on his campaign. But they are not alone.

Over the weekend, Rob Goldman made it clear that some of America’s biggest social media companies are scared of Mueller, too. Goldman is Facebook’s vice president for advertising, and according to his Twitter bio, a “student, seeker, raconteur, burner.” On Friday, he took to Twitter to proclaim his company’s innocence. He was, he wrote, “very excited to see the Mueller indictment today,” since Facebook had “shared Russian ads with Congress, Mueller and the American people.” But “still, there are key facts about the Russian actions that are still not well understood.”

He went on: “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.” Instead, he said, the main goal was 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.”

In a short string of tweets, in other words, Facebook’s vice president for advertising twisted and obfuscated the issues almost beyond recognition. For one, the indictment states clearly that the Russians were not merely buying ads: It alleges that they used fake American identities, fraudulently obtained PayPal accounts and fraudulent Social Security numbers to set up Facebook pages for groups such as “Blacktivist,” “Secured Borders” and “Army of Jesus.” They did indeed use those pages to spread fear and hatred, reaching tens and possibly hundreds of millions of people.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Look no further than

Europe and how they will take Face Book and Twitter down. Obvious the GOP is not going to protect our Elections. But,in Eourope,this Election Protection will happen and Facebook and Twitter as well as Google are going to face scrutiny like never before.

[Generic Brad]

2. They had people working for Trump's campaign through Cambridge Analytica!

Facebook should be very afraid. Some of their people were involved.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. The Trump campaign had somebody from Facebook right in their war room

They wanted to know every trick every click that there is in Facebook.


The Trump campaign's digital director, Brad Parscale, says Facebook targeting played a major role in the president's win last November.Parscale says the campaign accepted help from Facebook employees, which he "heard" the Clinton campaign did not do.He adds that the campaign targeted voters based on infrastructure policy.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/10/09/brad-parscale-says-trump-campaign-used-facebook-to-beat-clinton.html

[Wednesdays]

4. "Affect" versus "Effect"

Oy, where's the English Police when you need them?

[Scurrilous]

5. K&R