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by Colby Hall | 8:50 am, September 7th, 2017
This may end up being one of the most criminally overlooked stories of the year
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. Its a big news story thats launched thousands of breathless blog posts, but for anyone who watched Hillary Clinton speak at the Code conference in May, its old news.
On May 31st, Secretary Clinton covered a number of topics in a casual and candid Q&A: the e-mail scandal being the biggest nothing-burger ever, and how, in terms of voter registration and marketing data, she inherited nothing from an outdated DNC data operation. But more relevant to this story, she also gave a logical and dispassionate account of how Russian interference might have partnered with US Data operations namely the RNC and Cambridge Analytica to effectively undermine her bid for the White House.
In the clip above (courtesy of MSNBC), Clinton opened by extensively raving about the RNCs 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.
When asked by co-Host Walt Mossberg about the lies surrounding fake news, Clinton replied:
They were connected to the bots that are just out of control. We see now this new information about Trumps Twitter account being populated by millions of bots. And it was such a new experience. I understand why people on their Facebook pages would think, Oh, Hillary Clinton did that, I did not know that. Well thats going to affect my opinion about her. And we did not engage in false content. We may have tried to put every piece of information in the best possible light, and explanations, but we werent in the same category as the other side.
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https://www.mediaite.com/fake-news/tbt-hillary-clinton-has-already-told-us-all-about-russian-targeted-facebook-ad-buy/
samnsara
(17,616 posts)...smart,smart lady that HRC!
hedda_foil
(16,372 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)in the hope a DU'er would provide the answer.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Sports Illustrated attributes the origin of the term to a sneaker-specific blog named Nice Kicks.[1] According to SI, this blog began a practice of regular postings (on Thursdays) of photos of old basketball footwear in 2006, titling the series "Throwback Thursday". One other source agrees, giving more insight into the origins of the term and how its usage spread.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwback_Thursday
hedda_foil
(16,372 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)the hot take away at the time though was that she wasn't contrite and didn't grovel enough or something.
Some of what she discussed at that Q&A shocked me, and what should have made major editorial headlines did not, instead we got a lot of opinion pieces claiming Clinton was "blaming everybody else".
Bad Thoughts
(2,522 posts)It's their story.