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Thursday, September 07, 2017
Facebook Ads by Russians
Yesterday Facebook admitted that shady Russian groups spent over $100,000 promoting fake news stories on Facebook during the election. Those stories were spread via Facebook ads in targeted areas...battleground states...to specifically targeted precincts even, and they were all either Anti-Hillary Clinton or Pro-Trump. Fake stories. Untrue stories. Targeting swing voters in swing states. Bought and paid for by Russians.
Even if Trump didn't collude with the Russians (which is still possible), this is a huge story. A foreign country is messing with our elections. We have to stop them. But one party isn't even seriously looking into it. Next time they may be trying to help the other side, fellas. Stop trying to protect the president and get to the bottom of it.