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Thu Sep 7, 2017, 09:39 AM Sep 2017

Should have listened to Hillary's warning three months ago about Russian's Facebook ad-buy

Mediaite? @Mediaite 45m45 minutes ago
TBT: Hillary Clinton Already Told Us All About Russian Targeted Facebook Ad Buy http://mediaite.com/a/qkpwo

TBT: Hillary Clinton Told Us All About Russian Targeted Facebook Ad Buy Three Months Ago

Yesterday Facebook confirmed a Washington Post report that they sold roughly $100,000 of targeted ads on its platform, that was connected to hundreds of troll accounts and pages operated out of Russia. It’s a big news story that’s launched thousands of breathless blog posts, but for anyone who watched Hillary Clinton speak at the Code conference in May, it’s old news.

In the clip above (courtesy of MSNBC), Clinton opens by extensively raving about the RNC’s state-of-the-art data operation, before then mentioning links to data mining outfit Cambridge Analytica, which is owned by Billionaire Trump supporter Robert Mercer (which has also been linked to current White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.) Working together, Secretary Clinton said, created a powerful force “that married content with delivery and data. And it was a potent combination.”

Clinton reminded her audience that “seventeen agencies, all in agreement, concluded with high confidence that the Russians ran an extensive information war campaign against my campaign to influence voters in the election,” and claimed that they “could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided.”

She then went in for the kill, concluding that Russian interference efforts must have been “guided by Americans,” and voters that were “targeted with this false information” were those who were “genuinely trying to make up their minds.” Her logic ostensibly arrived at this notion, because based on Google search information, “searches for this stuff were particularly high in places in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.”


read more: https://www.mediaite.com/fake-news/tbt-hillary-clinton-has-already-told-us-all-about-russian-targeted-facebook-ad-buy/


Hillary Clinton: Russian Efforts to Interfere in Election Were ‘Guided by Americans’- May 31st, 2017
https://www.mediaite.com/online/hillary-clinton-russians-efforts-to-interfere-in-election-were-guided-by-americans/
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Should have listened to Hillary's warning three months ago about Russian's Facebook ad-buy (Original Post) bigtree Sep 2017 OP
Russian Efforts to Interfere in Election Were Guided by Americans Botany Sep 2017 #1
sorry, Botany, forgot the link bigtree Sep 2017 #2
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Botany

(70,592 posts)
1. Russian Efforts to Interfere in Election Were Guided by Americans
Thu Sep 7, 2017, 09:42 AM
Sep 2017


It was a coup and we had treason.

And what about the computer server in Trump's HQ that was linked to
Alfa Bank and Cambridge Analytica?
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