If a Sketchy Russian Ad Network Promotes a Facebook Event, Will Anyone Show Up? Last week, news broke a network of fake Russian trolls bought at least $1. Facebook between June 2. May 2. 01. 7. The ads were sometimes politically themed and potentially reached tens of millions of Americans, raising questions about possible links to increasingly well- evidenced allegations of Russian interference in the 2. Donald Trump’s campaign, and could have ultimately been linked to some kind of marketing operation instead. Here’s something a little more tangible, per the Daily Beast. Apparently, a known Russian front company managed to use “Facebook’s event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests in the U.

S., including an August 2. Muslim rally in Idaho,” which were promoted using ads paid for by the same network of fake accounts.

According to the Beast, Facebook confirmed the events were taken down in the same purge of the $1. The Idaho rally originally appeared as sponsored by “Secured. Borders,” the same front allegedly responsible for an eclipse- themed meme of Donald Trump the president actually tweeted. Deep Impact Full Movie In English. Secure. Borders is linked to the Internet Research Agency, a strange St.

Petersburg venture with ties to both Vladimir Putin and private interests. But if this was an attempt to actually translate influence into a change in the behavior of US voters, the event does not seem to have been very successful. One cached Facebook event which appears to be the same one flagged by the Beast had just 4. Without more details, a lot of this is inherently speculative—one could interpret this as a test for some kind of government op, or perhaps an attempt by the troll farm to pretend it had a real- life presence while it was hawking merchandise or linking slack- jawed US yokels to profit- generating malware. But whatever was going on with this specific event, it seems to have been a very curious use of someone’s dollars, or rubles, or whatever.[The Daily Beast].

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