Saturday, September 16, 2017

Facebook and the Russians

Facebook has managed to give the appearance of cooperating with the Federal government investigation of Russian involvement in the US national election.  First, the election was last November, so this isn't exactly hot news.  Second, the methodology for collecting the payments was flawed and understated the actual number of ads being placed.  The FSB and GRU are not stupid enough to associate the ads with Russia IPs, unless they are really slipping in their abilities.

Second, besides not looking very hard, Facebook is a little late in admitting the use of their platform for blatant interference in public policy issues in the US.  They don't like the thought of having to police their ads for this kind of ad.  How rediculous is that?

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