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The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
By Scott Shane, New York Times, 7 September 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html
Fake Russian Facebook Accounts Bought $100,000 in Political Ads
By Scott Shane And Vindu Goel, The New York TImes, 6 Se[tember 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/facebook-russian-political-ads.html
Facebook sold more than $100,000 in political ads to a Russian company during the 2016 election – TechCrunch
By Taylor Hatmaker, Tech Crunch, 6 September 2017
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/06/facebook-russia-ads-election/amp/
Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election
By Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post, 7 September 2017 at 11:29 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/facebook-says-it-sold-political-ads-to-russian-company-during-2016-election/2017/09/06/32f01fd2-931e-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html
A stunning new study shows that Fox News is more powerful than we ever imagined
It could even be flipping elections.
Dylan Matthews, VOX, 8 September 2017, 9:00am EDT
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/8/16263710/fox-news-presidential-vote-study
Fake likes: Researchers uncover Facebook 'collusion networks'
Security flaw allowed at least a million Facebook accounts to generate more than 100 million "likes" and comments.
Michelle Meyers, CNet, 8 September 2017 4:07 PM PDT
https://www.cnet.com/news/fake-likes-researchers-uncover-facebook-collusion-networks/
30 Batsh*t Crazy, Mostly Racist Facebook Memes the Russians Used to Corrupt Your Mind
Facebook finally admitted that the Russians tried to weaponize the social network to sway the election. Here are some of the arms in that propaganda arsenal.
Kevin Poulsen, The Daily Beast, 9 September 2017
http://www.thedailybeast.com/30-batsht-crazy-mostly-racist-facebook-memes-the-russians-used-to-corrupt-your-mind
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