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But then, roughly eight hours after the indictment appeared online, Rob Goldman, a VP for ads for Facebook, decided he had a few points to add to the debate. He was just freelancing, and had not cleared his thoughts with either Facebook’s communications team or its senior management.
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The tweetstorm started to spread in the early hours of Saturday. It caught the attention of the president of Pro Publica, one of the organizations that has been most critical of Facebook’s advertising practice. The former deputy communications director of the Clinton campaign noted it too.
And then, the message caught the attention of America’s Tweeter in Chief. And so on Saturday, right about when Facebook’s executives would have been sitting down for lunch, @realdonaldtrump decided that he wanted to introduce his 48 million followers to Rob Goldman.
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That’s when, according to executives at the company, Facebook realized it was holding a sh-- sandwich. It’s also when the company realized Goldman’s more subtle error: He had made it look like his company was repudiating the work of Robert Mueller.
Basically he tweeted that most of the Russian ads occurred after the election... And he had seen all of the ads, and swaying the election was NOT the main goal of the Russians
Oops...
Last edited by DRob4JC; 02-20-2018 at 08:28 PM..
Reason: grammar
The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election. https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/10...d-to-congress/ …
This poor SOB better have eyes in the back of his head with the crowd he just upset by telling the world this.
The bolt of Russia' meddling is through fake news and troll posts, NOT ADS.
We just discovered the a very popular pro-Trump reddit sub that was occasionally referenced on this very board as evidence of great Trump love is in fact almost exclusively population by Russian bots and trolls.
In fact, this is from the article:
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The obvious error was asserting that one could understand the scope of the Russian propaganda campaign just through the ads. Russia’s ads were viewed roughly 11 million times, while posts by Russia-controlled accounts had been viewed 150 million times. Leaving aside pure numbers, anyone who had read the indictment knew that ads were a minute part of the operation. Facebook likes to point out that the Russians only spent a hundred thousand dollars on all their ads, a rather small number in comparison to the $1.25 million that the indictment reveals Russia’s Internet Research Agency was spending monthly on its election influence campaign.
The OBVIOUS problem here is that Trump and his enablers tried to latch on to this one irrelevant fact (most ads were purchased after the election) as if it somehow invalidates everything else and exonerates him. Which is bogus.
I don't think it will be that bad for him... pending how much play it gets.
If anything it does restore a certain degree of confidence in hearing good ole fashioned unbiased truth, albeit for a short time before the retraction.
Well, at the very least we are making progress. Baby steps again allover.
But then, roughly eight hours after the indictment appeared online, Rob Goldman, a VP for ads for Facebook, decided he had a few points to add to the debate. He was just freelancing, and had not cleared his thoughts with either Facebook’s communications team or its senior management.
...
The tweetstorm started to spread in the early hours of Saturday. It caught the attention of the president of Pro Publica, one of the organizations that has been most critical of Facebook’s advertising practice. The former deputy communications director of the Clinton campaign noted it too.
And then, the message caught the attention of America’s Tweeter in Chief. And so on Saturday, right about when Facebook’s executives would have been sitting down for lunch, @realdonaldtrump decided that he wanted to introduce his 48 million followers to Rob Goldman.
...
That’s when, according to executives at the company, Facebook realized it was holding a sh-- sandwich. It’s also when the company realized Goldman’s more subtle error: He had made it look like his company was repudiating the work of Robert Mueller.
Basically he tweeted that most of the Russian ads occurred after the election... And he had seen all of the ads, and swaying the election was NOT the main goal of the Russians
Oops...
He was factually correct, most of the ads did occur after the election & the goal was not to elect Donald Trump. Too bad he works at a company where his thoughts did not align with company left wing politics & he had to retract the truth.
The bolt of Russia' meddling is through fake news and troll posts, NOT ADS.
We just discovered the a very popular pro-Trump reddit sub that was occasionally referenced on this very board as evidence of great Trump love is in fact almost exclusively population by Russian bots and trolls.
In fact, this is from the article:
The OBVIOUS problem here is that Trump and his enablers tried to latch on to this one irrelevant fact (most ads were purchased after the election) as if it somehow invalidates everything else and exonerates him. Which is bogus.
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Exonerates him from what? He's been charged with no crime & there's no collusion with Russia.
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