New book reveals how much Facebook knew about Russian election interference & how little the company

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Who bought into Facebook early and in a large way?

Oh yeah, Russians.......we know they have hooks into the bip players financially, but I wonder if Steve has other concerns that force him to allow Russian cyber warfare on a larger and larger scale with Facebook?

[hedda_foil]

3. Wow! That's news to me. A link or two about Russian investment in FB?

I've really never seen anything about that so I'd really appreciate it.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. I just Googled "Russian investments in Facebook"

Got 17.5MM links. One of the first was a Guardian article-


https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-investor

[hedda_foil]

7. Thank you! VTB Bank/Gazprom went to Jared.

[Johonny]

5. On the other hand Facebook is really good at policing women's clothing

and other pointless infractions.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. As if we hadn't learned enough from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal

Wasn't that enough??