Facebook bigger threat to democracy and truth than Putin.

[Mark Kohut]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/07/facebookgot-into-mess-cant-get-out-of-it-mark-zuckerberg-surveillance-capitalism

An estimated 10 million views of the Russian memes some estimate carefully,
provisionally, full of uncertainty. But, as the anthropologists have said
about counting in many pre-industrial societies, it's "one, two,
many".....so MANY it is...

And, of course, not just ads but the creation of events, rallies....one of
those hard-working thirteen
squared would create a Group post for a rally in a small rural town in
Michigan or PA, say.......and some Trump supporters would jump into the
Group and, if you've been in one of those active groups, the origins are
unknown to most..........the group would self-organize and presto an IRL
rally.....with local coverage at least and, if anything 'exciting'
happened--if it bleeds it leads--, a bit larger.

https://qz.com/1284222/russian-facebook-ads-were-barely-targeted-and-they-were-still-hugely-effective/

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/10/russian-facebook-ads-house-intelligence-full-list/

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/11/here_are_the_facebook_posts_russia_used_to_meddle_in_the_2016_election.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/11/what-we-found-facebook-ads-russians-accused-election-meddling/602319002/

https://twitter.com/tomricks1/status/1043565929685225472

At least one political science [sorry for the oxymoron; the world is crazy]
team wrote up a fine
probabilistic analysis of how many votes MIGHT have been cast in the swing
states by the influence and effect of those MIGHTY THIRTEEN--gawd, sounds
like it could be a Stalin-era work collective--, working on the common
sense belief that 1) well, one could swing easily, right?; so two as well,
right?...how many, how many then, work it out?--could be motivated to vote
if not  sure--among an enthusiastic number of folks and
therefore,.........enough votes MIGHT have
been made to happen.......in the swing states....

I think I was hit by some of those hulking thirteen hackers over my Send a
Free Constitution to Donald Trump FB effort....long story which Joseph
would not finish, I'm sure, but just to say: late burst of anti-senders,
pro-Trumpets...from FB accounts with no history in some cases.

and I was told by Twitter I interacted with some of those 13 by 13 to
the13th  Russians.
But I would, wouldn't I?

https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1043679347922677761

Using Hoaxy, a measuring tool from U of Indiana, one learns that 16% of all
#VetoBeto posts are bots. Most think Russian bots but no confirmation yet.
That is two every minute discrediting Beto for Cruz.



On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:04 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Sold troves of private info to Koch sponsored Republican meme mechanics
> Making 13 Russians and their ineffective actions look like some kind of
> pathetic scrawling on the outhouse wall
>
> Bullshit memes continue to be targeting those vulnerable to far right
> propaganda with no effective fact checking
>
> Is actively suppressing news and opinions its operatives don’t like,
> effectively censoring their major social media platform
>
>
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