Released Facebook Ads Show How Russia Stoked Racial, Religious Tension

[DonViejo]

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published NOVEMBER 1, 2017 5:07 PM

Muslims. Undocumented immigrants. Black Lives Matter activists.

These were among the groups targeted in the Facebook ads purchased by Russia-linked accounts during the 2016 election and released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee. Though the small number of ads made public make it difficult to confirm that the ads are a “representative sampling,” as Democrats on the committee claim, those released shore up reporting about Russia’s efforts to stoke American voters’ fears of their Muslim, black and Latino neighbors.







Four of the ads, from the page Stop All Invaders, disparaged Islam with messages about the need to “kick Sharia out of America” and the “security risk” posed by burqa-wearing women who could be terrorists in disguise.

Another pair of ads focused on undocumented Latino immigration.





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[underthematrix]

1. I never saw any of this nonsense

[ThatGuyJerome]

2. Never saw them

I never saw any of these....oh yeah, I DON'T USE FACEBOOK! crackbook is ruining this generation. Everywhere you go people are glued to their screens

[Madam45for2923]

3. These looked geared towards the RW, we need to see the ads also targeted to the left

[herding cats]

6. Gizmodo has some up, I'll link below for you.

https://gizmodo.com/here-are-14-russian-ads-that-ran-on-facebook-during-the-1820052443

[Blue_Tires]

4. Moscow must be laughing their asses off...

[redstatebluegirl]

5. One of my facebook friends from Oklahoma posted a couple of these before i unfriended her.

We had been friends over a shared love of showing Angus cattle, but when she started posting stuff like this I had to pull the plug. Haven't talked to her since.