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    Facebook’s top advertising executive faced backlash Friday after weighing in on what he observed regarding Russian election meddling—namely, that the country’s disinformation campaign on the site was not an attempt to sway the 2016 election.


    “Very excited to see the Mueller indictment today. We shared Russian ads with Congress, Mueller and the American people to help the public understand how the Russians abused our system. Still, there are keys facts about the Russian actions that are still not well understood,” tweeted Rob Goldman, Facebook’s head of advertising.


    “Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to affect the outcome of the 2016 US election,” he added. “I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal.”



    Goldman went on to explain that the majority of Russian ads appeared on the social media site after the election.


    “The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election,” he said. “The main goal of the Russian propaganda and misinformation effort is to divide America by using our institutions, like free speech and social media, against us. It has stoked fear and hatred amongst Americans. It is working incredibly well. We are quite divided as a nation."


    He said the best and easiest way to combat this type of campaign is to have a “well-educated citizenry.”.....snip~


    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahba...hated-n2451573



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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    Did I say he didn't?
    Then what did he "back up" from ?? What were the contradictions ??
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    Quote Originally Posted by hanger4 View Post
    Then what did he "back up" from ?? What were the contradictions ??
    Later that day, Rob Goldman seemed to come to the same understanding, and posted internally at Facebook a message that read as follows: “I wanted to apologize for having tweeted my own view about Russian interference without having it reviewed by anyone internally. The tweets were my own personal view and not Facebook’s. I conveyed my view poorly. The Special Counsel has far more information about what happened [than] I do—so seeming to contradict his statements was a serious mistake on my part.


    https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-executive-rob-goldman-apologizes-to-company-and-robert-mueller/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    [/FONT][/COLOR]https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-executive-rob-goldman-apologizes-to-company-and-robert-mueller/
    I've already read the original story from Wired and Rob Goldman didn't walk back his two core facts, that the majority ads were placed after the election and the intent was to sow discord, as stated by team Mueller. Wired also spent time alluding to posts by Russian controled accounts that were viewed 150 million times and that is wholly irrelevant. Facebook is an international/world wide social network, posters/members can voice their opinions about US elections and candidates just as Common Sense, Beevee and others do here. It's not illegal. As to the possibility of fake news/links being posted, it's Facebook's responsibility (if they wish) to determine what's fake and not fake before dissemination. In conclusion, the Wired push back piece failed to allay the core facts of Rob Goldman's tweet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    Not good, but does it mean we must allow them to do it to us?
    We should use our cyber capabilities to combat this stuff much more than we do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    We should use our cyber capabilities to combat this stuff much more than we do.
    I can't argue with that.
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