Monday, 30 October 2017

Russia’s election posts reached 126 million people, Facebook will tell Congress

Russia’s surreptitious campaign to meddle in the US election reached 126 million people through posts on the social network, according to prepared testimony obtained by The Verge. That figure, which is more than 10 times the number of people reportedly exposed to Russia-linked advertising on the site, indicates that more than half of US Facebook users saw Russia-linked posts in the months leading up to the election.

The figures are disclosed in prepared testimony scheduled to be delivered Tuesday by Facebook’s general counsel, Colin Stretch, at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing. “The foreign interference we saw is reprehensible and outrageous and opened a new battleground for our company, our industry and our society,” the...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/30/16578022/facebook-senate-testimony-russia-126-million-people

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/10/russias-election-posts-reached-126.html

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