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Reversing denials, Facebook admits Russia-tied election ad buy

Rachel Maddow looks back at the months of denials from Facebook that Russia was using their platform to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and notes that their admission to the contrary today is not only vindication for reporters but a new...

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It is no secret, well documented by the U.S. Intelligence Community, that they “reasonably assess” that under possible Kremlin direction the internet and social media outlets were unindated with pro-Trump and anti-Hillary propaganda by Russian state controlled propaganda outlets like RT, RT America, Sputnik, Pravda, botnets, and an ever growing list of “useful idiots” that helped propagate #fakenews. That would include many conservative websites, talk radio pundits, and Fox News cable show hosts, specifically Hannity, Pirro, Carlson, The Five, and Fox And Friends.

Rachel @maddow discusses reports by Time’s Massimo Calabresi, Axios, Bloomberg, McClatchy, Washington Post and others regarding Facebook disclosing information on Russian interference in the 2016 election and using Facebook (and other social media platforms) to target members with pro-Trump and anti-Hillary propaganda.

Maddow poses the question of domestic participants not only in the information being posted as well as the targeting of the audience. Anyone who has ever seen posts, or have received spam emails, messages, etc., from non-English speaking sources knows the grammar and phoenetics are a dead giveaway they are not from English speaking origins. It would be reasonalble to question if there were domestic participants in the production and dissemination of this propaganda if it was indeed well written.

The question of demographics and targeting is also a valid one and a reasonable source of such weaponry could be Jared Kushner’s “Stealth Data Machine”. Some circles credit Kushner for Trump’s overtaking other Republican nominees and his eventual “unpopular vote” win of the White House along with Trump campaign Digital Director Brad Parscale. Kushner had access to the Republican National Committee's voter database. Quite useful for targeting and cementing the Republican voter base, especially those who were really not fond of Trump but anti-Democrat and anti-Hillary due to the amount of #fakenews put out on her and the Republican Party’s campaign of their own #fakenews and twisting of facts surrounding Benghazi and her private email server.

Kushner also teamed up with Cambridge Analytica, a pshycographic data firm that built comprehensive pshycological and personality profiles on millions of Facebook users to target them with pin-point propaganda and disinformation aimed at getting Trump elected and discrediting Clinton. Sound familiar? The exact thing Putin was doing. Cambridge Analytica was also involved in the Ted Cruz campaign (prior to Trump), and with Brexit.

When you talk about Cambridge Analytica you must also add reference to billionaire hedge funder Robert Mercer who was one of Trump’s biggest funders (after Cruz dropped out) and Steve Bannon, who was former head of Breitbart News (and now back there again after getting kicked out of the White House). Both Mercer and Bannon had financial ties to Cambridge Analytica and Glittering Steel, the production company that helped produce the discredited Clinton Cash (book of lies) and subsequent video by political hack Peter Schweitzer. Mercer also helped fund James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas fake sting videos, as did Trump Foundation with a $10,000 donation 1 month before Trump jumped in the ring. Other notables with Mercer/Bannon/Breitbart ties who wound up in the Trump camp and White House are Kellyanne Conway and David Bossie (Citizens United ties).

OK, connect the dots. Timelines seem to follow a certain trail that starts before the 2016 campaign with a lot of stops between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign, campaign officials, Trump and company, Trump and family.

If you were let’s say an agent for Putin, and you wanted to be able to conduct a campaign to discredit Hillary Clinton, who Putin despises and accuses of trying to undermine his rigged election, and you wanted to try to put a Putin loving puppet in the highest office in the United States, and make it sound and look like it was originating from the U.S., and you wanted to effectively target American citizens based on their beliefs, preferences, fears and weaknesses, you would need detailed information on those American citizens. Who would fit that profile, who would be able to fill that bill? Jared Kushner with his Stealth Data Machine, and Cambridge Analytica, both linked to the Trump campaign, and the alt-right cult culture and fake news syndicate revolving around Breitbart and donors. FAST FORWARD TO MARCH, 2018 Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election