Culture 3500 "Stealth Russian Ads on Facebook" published

TLDR: The "Stealth Russian Ads" were released on May 10 in a shitty way. This post covers someone that went through all the 3500 individual PDFs and made it much easier to browse.

"[Note: A significant percentage of the 3,500 ads are humorous memes with no discernible political message.]"

On May 10, 2018, the Democrat minority of the House Intelligence Committee released over 3,500 ads that Russian operatives placed on Facebook from June 2015 to August 2017. (A small number ran on Instagram, which is owned by FB.) At first, Facebook refused to hand over these ads that were meant to inflame social and political divisions and influence the 2016 presidential election. Eventually, the company relented and gave them to Congress, but still refused to let the public see them.

While it’s great that the committee posted all of these ads, they did it in a way that makes it impossible to casually view this trove of propaganda. The ads were posted in eleven large zip files (four are well over a gigabyte each). Inside these bulky zip files, each ad (and its metadata) is a separate PDF. That’s more than 3,500 files.

The 3,500+ ads with metadata: June-Dec 2015 /// 2016 /// Jan-Aug 2017

http://altgov2.org/russian-fb-ads/

 

[Lysol]

According to the MSM, there are "troll farms" located in St. Petersburg and the Balkans where the Russian government pays freelancers by the post to Google Translate shitty memes and get them up on Facebook.

The immediate problem with this is that it's assuming that "le super hackers" under employ from such an "influential" nation would be stupid enough not to be able to cover their tracks.

Is there any way for regular people to verify that?

No, most likely not.

 

[XYZpdq]

Shit you're telling me tumblr has been sharing a Russian Nazi alt-right white supremacist racist homophobic islamaphobic Russian meme about spaghettios this entire time? Call those hoes out.

If they were goodthinkful enough they wouldn't have been swayed by the tricks of the russian hacker known as 4chan! They must be secret subversives!

 

[DNA_JACKED]

Anyone who fell for these blatantly clickbait ads is exceptional, and this being the "evidence" that the 'muh russia' theory has produced shows that even evangelical TV stars are more credible then the DNC and left wing media at this point. This truly is turning into the democrat's version of benghazi, endless investigations and countless millions waster just to prove a giant nothingburger.

Sadly, I'm sure I will have to listen to many coworkers blabbing on about how this will truly save us from AMERIKKKA, bringing down DRUMPFTM and the Republicans once and for all.

Over facebook ads.

According to the MSM, there are "troll farms" located in St. Petersburg and the Balkans where the Russian government pays freelancers by the post to Google Translate shitty memes and get them up on Facebook.

Dream job right there.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

If Facebook ads made you vote for Trump you're exceptional.