Facebook restores previously suspended Russia-linked pages

[mia]

Source: The Hill

Facebook on Monday restored four Russia-linked pages geared towards millennials that it suspended earlier this month.

The pages, run by Maffick Media, now include disclaimers disclosing their affiliations with the Russian government.

"We reached out to Maffick Media to request that they disclose the affiliation of their Pages with its parent companies," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill. "The required information has now been added to the About section of these Pages to indicate their affiliation with RT and Ruptly so people can learn who's behind the Pages they're interacting with on Facebook."

Maffick Media's majority stakeholder is Ruptly, a subsidiary of the Kremlin-funded RT, a fact that was not previously highlighted in the pages' descriptions....




Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/431497-facebook-restores-previously-suspended-russia-linked-pages

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I was watching a video about Venezuela Aid Live that came through my facebook feed. This led to an RT news page and an article about the Washington Post.

RT (Russia Today) propaganda seems to be spreading quickly around social media.

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Forgive the crude remark below, if you can.

Zuck sucks the orange banana on his way to more Russian election interference. Swimming in money is not enough, let's drown him. Why do we fools remain captive to his social media manipulation?

Easy for me to say, never joined facebook, twitter or any honey trap.

[ancianita]

2. What what?? R fucking T?? Just looked. Yep, I see two RT pages on FB. Damn, I thought they dropped

them.

Not cool.

[MBS]

8. you speak for me.

no excuse for this. What could possibly be their justification?

[rockfordfile]

3. Sounds like facebook is desperate.

[leftofcool]

4. Since I am smart enough not to fall for Russian bot bullshit

I don't care.

[machoneman]

5. Why?

Better..why the fuck why????

[Frank Leemydear]

6. A Tale of Two Traitors

[dalton99a]

10. +1. "Facebook and Twitter were the reason we won this thing."

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/facebook-won-trump-election-not-just-fake-news/

Mark Zuckerberg is trying hard to convince voters that Facebook had no nefarious role in this election. But according to President-elect Donald Trump's digital director Brad Parscale, the social media giant was massively influential—not because it was tipping the scales with fake news, but because it helped generate the bulk of the campaign's $250 million in online fundraising.

"Our biggest incubator that allowed us to generate that money was Facebook," says Parscale, who has been working for the campaign since before Trump officially announced his candidacy a year and a half ago. Over the course of the election cycle, Trump's campaign funneled $90 million to Parscale's San Antonio-based firm, most of which went toward digital advertising. And Parscale says more of that ad money went to Facebook than to any other platform.

"Facebook and Twitter were the reason we won this thing," he says. "Twitter for Mr. Trump. And Facebook for fundraising."

[CDerekGo]

7. Ask me why

I deleted Facebook and Instagram over the weekend, and seriously considering Twitter as well. Getting so you can't go anywhere online without being bombarded by B/S bot accounts.

[dalton99a]

9. On orders of President Putin

[PSPS]

11. LOL. "The required information has now been added to the About section"

Nobody reads those, so this will let zuckerberg claim he "did something" while he continues to keep that stream of rubles flowing into his pocket.

[Sapient Donkey]

12. If you haven't seen it, this is how it looks on their front page

The about section includes the part about it being part of RT/Ruptly, but that's cut off on the front page.

*Oh wait, you can see it on the about section on the front page. I didn't notice that until I posted the image. I'm stupid.

[oldsoftie]

13. Disclaimers do nothing if no one reads them

[not fooled]

14. yep

or what the innocuous-sounding "RT" stands for.

Well, at least libertarian asshole fuckerberg ditched any plans to run for president.