Facebook was not forthcoming with Congress
It seems Facebook is trying to play down the Russian ad buys. The ad buys they disclosed were only ad buys done with rubles. They claimed it was about 600 fake users.. Meanwhile they didnt even bother to cross check to see if those same 600 accounts also bought ads in dollars or other currencies... Much less they didnt bother to check or disclose any accounts buying with anything other than rubles.
Now to put this in perspective, during the French election there were over 500 thousand fake accounts created by Russians as attempt to sway the election process. Yet facebook rounds up only 600 from the US election that being just accounts who paid with rubles.
Yet another reason to not use facebook,. If only I could have so easily weeded out all the Rusian scammers back in the TGP days...
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