How Russian Facebook Ads Divided and Targeted US Voters Before the 2016 Election
How Russian Facebook Ads Divided and Targeted US Voters Before the 2016 Election
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
April 17, 20188m 44s
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Show Notes
When Young Mie Kim began studying political ads on Facebook in August of 2016—while Hillary Clinton was still leading the polls— few people had ever heard of the Russian propaganda group, Internet Research Agency. Not even Facebook itself understood how the group was manipulating the platform's users to influence the election.
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