CNN: Exclusive: Even Pokémon Go used by extensive Russian-linked meddling effort
Russian efforts to meddle in American politics did not end at Facebook and Twitter. A CNN investigation of a Russian-linked account shows its tentacles extended to YouTube, Tumblr and even Pokémon Go.
One Russian-linked campaign posing as part of the Black Lives Matter movement used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Pokémon Go and even contacted some reporters in an effort to exploit racial tensions and sow discord among Americans, CNN has learned.
The campaign, titled "Don't Shoot Us," offers new insights into how Russian agents created a broad online ecosystem where divisive political messages were reinforced across multiple platforms, amplifying a campaign that appears to have been run from one source -- the shadowy, Kremlin-linked troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency.
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WNU Editor: So a few hundred Facebook/Twitter/and Google accounts .... among a billion plus accounts on these platforms .... was enough to influence the U.S. Presidential election. And if anyone has any doubts, the use of Pokémon Go should seal the argument. I thought that I would never say this .... but I will .... LMFAO!!!
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Pokemon?!?!? Diabolical indeed!
Just the limited number of Facebook targetted ads paid for with rubles, by a Russian Troll farm, 3,000, were seen by 10 million Facebook users and shared over 450,000 times.
Since that initial admission, Facebook has admitted 9,000 other "information operations", seen by 32 million Facebook users with 2.8 million shares.
Twitter, 80 million tweets, 42 million retweets, 128 million eyeballs,
Google, 142 million "fake news" promotions, 520 million forwards, god knows how many eyeballs, that "earned" $93.8 million through AdSense,
YouTube's not talking much yet, but 192 of their top 500 YouTube channels have been shut down.
Some of the microtargetting get's really interesting, such as "spamming" DKos with fake BernieBro and Hillary stories and ads,
"Spamming" BernieBro's and Republican's with almost daily fake Hillary Campaign ads and donation solicitation,
Or microtargetting "Blue Lives Matter" supporters with "Hands Up" Pokemon ads and themes.
Hillary won the popular vote by roughly 2.9 million but only 80,000 votes in three heavilly microtargetted States gave Trump the electoral college.
It's a Brave New World.
Jay is back :))
One of the really "fun" reveals, is that when Mercer was backing Cruz, one of his companies took out Facebook ads, that under the guise of providing a entertaining, "free" "personality quiz", harvested incredibly detailed enonomic, political and social media data sets, and ip adresses, from 7 million Facebook users, ( and 9 million more in violation of Facebook rules),
Which was cross referenced to other purchased data sets, to construct social media cross links, network maps, the full data mining package.
Facebook "made" Mercer destroy the 9 million illegal data sets, alledgedly, but we only have Facebook's "word" on that.
On the web, "content" is not the "product", you are.
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