The social media ads Russia wanted Americans to see (Here they are and no paywall)

[DonViejo]

A batch of the ads were released Wednesday by members of the House intelligence panel.

By POLITICO STAFF 11/01/2017 03:11 PM EDT



Russian accounts bought thousands of social media ads on hot-button U.S. issues ranging from Black Lives Matter to illegal immigration, according to a batch of the ads released Wednesday by members of the House intelligence panel.

Here is a sampling of ads purchased by Russian-linked accounts and aimed at U.S. Facebook and Instagram users:

‘Buff Bernie’ coloring book

This ad promoted a coloring book called “Buff Bernie,” filled with “very attractive doodles of Bernie Sanders in muscle poses.” It added that “I’ve recently heard some hateful comments from the Hillary supporters about Bernie Sanders and his supporters” — language aimed at stirring up the kinds of intra-party divisions that would later flare after the first release of Russian-hacked Democratic Party documents during the summer of 2016.


This ad, created March 2016, targeted people ages 18 to 65+ in the United States who like “LGBT United”. | Facebook | Democratic House members

Posted on: LBGT United group on Facebook
Created: March 2016
Targeted: People ages 18 to 65+ in the United States who like “LGBT United”
Results: 848 impressions, 54 clicks
Ad spend: 111.49 rubles ($1.92)

Teaching children about guns

This image of an adult and a child wielding guns included the text that “this is the way our children have to be raised,” adding: “Follow us if this video makes you proud!”


This ad, created in April 2016, targeted people ages 13 to 65+ who are interested in the tea party of Donald Trump. | Democratic House members

Posted on: Instagram
Created: April 2016
Targeted: People ages 13 to 65+ who are interested in the tea party or Donald Trump
Results: 108,433 impressions, 857 clicks
Ad spend: 17,306 rubles ($297)



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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/01/social-media-ads-russia-wanted-americans-to-see-244423

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. So the murderers at the KGB were promoting Bernie Sanders?

hmmm

[DonViejo]

2. Please, please! Follow the link to the Politico article and see the array of ads that were run

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Thanks, yes, looking at them tells me the KGB has a pretty good idea of how

dumb many of us really are.

Or, how easily manipulated we are if we are racists or hate Hillary.

[lapfog_1]

3. I think they promoted anyone that could take votes away from Hillary

and cause Trump to be elected.

That meant telling the Bernie voters that Hillary was evil and stole the primary from him and supporting Jill Stein and anything else they could think of.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. Which means the KGB came to a conclusion about a lot of the voters they were targeting

a conclusion I better not say here.

[DURHAM D]

4. I'm shocked. nt

[Qutzupalotl]

10. They were also working against him.

From the Daily Beast article today:

Others were significantly less successful. One ad from “United Muslims of America” depicting Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with a caption reading “Sanders Win With Help From Arab and Muslim Americans is No Surprise” had zero ad clicks according to the metadata and 11 ad impressions.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-democrats-release-all-known-russian-troll-farm-facebook-ads-and-twitter-accounts

Russia was exploiting any division they could find to get us to hate each other, fight each other, or even secede. Russia gains when other countries weaken or divide.

[Solly Mack]

6. Thank you for posting!!

[BigmanPigman]

8. The ads appear to be produced

by a 6th grader who failed "graphic design" in middle school.

[tulipsandroses]

11. Thanks for posting

And yet so many still find nothing wrong with this. So many of the same people think football players taking a knee are unpatriotic. But are perfectly fine with a foreign entity meddling in our election.