Sentences with phrase «russian ad buys»

Again, the actual number could be different than this by a huge margin — it is very likely that this Russian ad buy is not at all representative — but that margin could go in either direction.

Congressional investigators have been frustrated by how little detail Facebook provided in its briefing to them about the Russian ad buying, people familiar with the meetings said.

Not exact matches

In a blog post on Monday Facebook vice president of policy and communications Elliot Schrage explained some of the kinds of Russian - bought ads it was handing over to Congress.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday in a live speech that his company has turned over to Congress ads bought by Russian operatives to influence the 2016 U.S. election.

YouTube has said it has found no evidence of Russian groups buying ads on its platform to influence the outcome of the UK's Brexit vote in 2016.

Facebook announced today that its internal investigation revealed fake Russian accounts bought at least $ 100,000 of political ads during the 2016 election season.

Facebook has turned over the more than 3,000 Russian - bought ads to Congress.

Only later, Facebook said in fact 10 million people saw Russian - bought election ads on Facebook... or was it 126 million?

The indictment also cites a number of paid social media ads denigrating Clinton, bought with Russian money funneled through PayPal accounts set up using false U.S. identities.

To reduce Russian interference to buying political ads with rubles is to skate over the complexity of this issue: how do you know what is a political ad, for one, and simply looking at currency is almost certainly a relatively useless signal, for another.

Russians also bought ads spreading voter fraud conspiracies and touted an event to «support Hillary» and «save American Muslims.»

The Russian trolls buying ads during 2016 were just one such flaw.

March 14: The Federal Election Commission said it would start writing new disclosure rules for online ads in response to revelations Russian interests bought content on Facebook and other platforms in an attempt to meddle with the 2016 election.

Facebook disclosed in September that Russians under fake names used the social network to try to influence U.S. voters in the months before and after the 2016 election, writing about inflammatory subjects, setting up events and buying ads.

Most people didn't spend much time thinking about how a political ad in their news feed got there, or who was behind it until Russians used Facebook's automated ad - buying system to influence American voters.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal comes after last year's disclosures that a Russian company bought ads and placed false news stories on Facebook in an effort to sow dissension among U.S. voters.

Google has found evidence that Russian agents bought ads on its wide - ranging networks in an effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential campaign.

Prompted by the widespread Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two dozen states during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign entities from creating independent expenditure committees or buying political ads, requires anyone who purchases an online political ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also requires online ads to include information about who paid for them, as is currently required of traditional media platforms.

You may apply to one of numerous Internet introduction agencies and buy addresses of Russian women seeking a partner abroad, place a personal ad, or go for a tour organized by an agency where you will have a chance to meet hundreds of marriage - minded Russian women in person on so called «socials».

The batch of more than 3,000 Russian - bought ads that Facebook is preparing to turn over to Congress shows a deep understanding of social divides in Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California.

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Take your pick from the widest choice of routes linking the UK and Ireland to France and Spain plus a great range of holiday Exclusive: Russian - bought Black Lives Matter ad on Facebook targeted Baltimore and Ferguson

We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians.

Facebook found only $ 1 worth of Russian - bought ads on Brexit topics last year and after continuing with a second investigation, the social media platform did not increase those numbers.

Putin - backed Russian groups paid up to $ 100,000 to buy the ads, and boosted anti-immigrant rallies in Idaho, among other activities.

The Russian troll farm that bought ads pointing to fake news sites on Facebook also ran a fake Twitter account impersonating the Tennessee Republican Party.

A Facebook spokesman told CNN in July that «we have seen no evidence that Russian actors bought ads on Facebook in connection with the election.»

At the time, Facebook turned in information about these ad buys to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the election.

One week after it told the country that it had sold $ 100,000 worth of ads to a Russian troll farm during the 2016 election, Facebook is still not sure whether pro-Kremlin groups may have made other ad buys intended to influence American politics that it simply hasn't discovered yet, sources with knowledge of the matter said.

Last month, Facebook's head of advertising, Rob Goldman, drew fire when he defended Facebook's handling of the incident and argued the Russians bought ads to exploit social divisions, not primarily to sway the 2016 election — a point that some in Washington interpreted as contradicting the indictment.

Multiple Russian - boughts ads were displayed at the hearing, including a Facebook post from a page called Heart of Texas claiming Hillary Clinton had a 69 % disapproval rate among veterans and another Facebook event called «Miners for Trump.»

Not anything goes when you have foreign countries that are influencing our democracy, when you have an indictment of 13 Russians that feature the fact that they actually were buying ads, buying ads, some in rubles, that tried to mess around in our election.

Less than a month later, in May, Time reported that Russian agents had created fake accounts on Facebook and Twitter and had bought ads on Facebook in an attempt to manipulate American social media users.

Lawmakers believe the ad buys identified by Twitter, Facebook and other companies represent a small fraction of the full scope of Russian meddling.

The desire for growth, keeping users hooked on the newsfeed, and the need to make ad - based cash, is also what made possible the Russian meddling in the US election — that includes their ability to create and share fake news and buy ads on the network without any actual interference.

Critics have pilloried the company for letting Russian operatives spread misinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign, and the new policy was welcomed in Washington, where lawmakers have been working on legislation that would force social media companies to be more transparent about who is buying certain kinds of ads.

Facebook reinvigorated the debate two months ago after it disclosed that Russian - linked Facebook accounts bought thousands of ads that sought to inflame social and political tensions before and after election.

Here's what's worth knowing: following the fall - out over Russian - bought ads in the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook said it created the tools needed to handle political ad spending better.

Several tech companies, including Twitter and Google, have faced criticism for failing to curb the spread of «fake news» on its platforms, and allowing Russian - backed trolls to buy ads to spread misinformation on their platforms.

We've already learned that Russian sources used Facebook to spread disinformation to millions of users, and even bought ads intended to create divisions between American voters.

Facebook said that it traced $ 100,000 in ad buys made during the 2016 election cycle to a Russian troll farm.

In a blog post on Monday Facebook vice president of policy and communications Elliot Schrage explained some of the kinds of Russian - bought ads it was handing over to Congress.

Some of those ads were bought using the Russian language, even though they were displayed to users in English.

Representatives from the company explained the findings to congressional investigators today and noted that the accounts associated with the ad buys could be traced to a Russian troll farm, The Washington Post reported.

It's clear that Facebook has no interest in revealing details of the ad buys, or telling individuals whether they were targets of what amounts to a Russian plot to influence the U.S. election.

Last week, news broke a network of fake Russian trolls bought at least $ 100,000 in ads from Facebook between June 2015 and May 2017.

Mueller's investigation has received copies of the Russian - bought ads and details about the specific account information and targeting criteria the buyers used to distribute their ads, according to the Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.

The ads do not appear to be from the same Kremlin - affiliated entity that bought ads on Facebook (fb), which may indicate a broader Russian online disinformation effort, the paper reported.

The live interview was the first by a senior Facebook executive since the social media giant last month told congressional panels investigating allegations of Russian meddling during the election that it had found 3,000 politically divisive ads believed to have been bought by Russia.

As it comes under increasing pressure to stop the spread of misinformation, Facebook has announced that it will turn over copies of more than 3000 ads it believes were bought by a Russian «troll farm» to congressional investigators.