Facebook Tells Government Signficantly Less Than 1% of Election Ads Came from Russia

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
October 31, 2017

Just as Mueller is effectively admitting that the “collusion” kookspiracy was a hoax, Facebook is admitting that the Russian internet propaganda war was a hoax as well.

RT:

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter have prepared their testimonies on the alleged ‘Russia-linked’ election-related posts to US lawmakers. Both appear to say the numbers are under one percent of all election-related posts.

Facebook’s written testimony, seen by Reuters and Bloomberg, claims some 80,000 posts related to the US election were published by “Russia-based operatives” over two years.

In the massive flow of Facebook’s content, that amounts to one in 23,000 posts, or some 0.004 percent. Regardless, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch called such posts a “new threat” to the social network’s “mission of building community and everything we stand for.” He said the posts were created by “fake accounts” and are thus “unacceptable.”

Falling neatly in line with US lawmakers’ relentless hunt for alleged “Russian interference” in the 2016 US election, Stretch will testify that the posts “opened a new battleground for our company, our industry and our society.” Some 126 million Americans may have seen the offending posts over the two-year period, Stretch claims.

Twitter will meanwhile testify that it has “tracked” 2,752 automated accounts to “Russian operatives,” according to an unnamed source familiar with Twitter’s prepared testimony, Reuters reports.

This is significantly up from the 201 accounts reported in September. The 1.4 million tweets by the “Russia-linked” automated accounts amount to some 0.74 percent of election coverage on Twitter and underperformed relative to their volume.

It is not clear whether the culpable accounts include Atlanta-based African-American rights activist Charlie Peach, who earlier told RT she was being banned in the “Russian bot” sweep, or any like her.

Facebook and Twitter have caved in to US lawmakers’ pressure to find a centralized, Moscow-backed campaign that swayed American voters in the 2016 election, which saw Republic Donald Trump snatch a narrow win from Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Previously, Facebook revealed $100,000 worth of vaguely “Russia-linked” ads related to the election, over half of which it later admitted were posted after the election was over.

There is nothing illegal about being from a country and supporting a politician in another country with Facebook ads or any other kind of internet-based media operations.

The US does this to a much more extreme degree in countries all over the world. The US literally paid people to riot and violently overthrow the elected government of the Ukraine.

Sure, if it had been revealed that some huge number of posts on Facebook were done by the Russian government, I could see there being some kind of a discussion to be had about foreign media influence in the internet age. But it is an extremely small number of posts, none of which were linked to the Russian government itself.

People maybe don’t understand that the average Russian person, at all levels of society (including big business) were pro-Trump, because it would have been great for the Russian economy to have good relations with the West, America in particular. The sanctions put on Russia by Obama and the Merkel Machine cut the value of the ruble in half.

Before the sanctions, it was 32 rubles to the dollar, and since the sanctions, it has averaged at about 65, while going all the way down to the 80s at certain points.

No Russians like that situation, so all were in favor of Trump, so it is not even a little bit surprising that internet-based ad agencies in Russia would be tasked by any Russian entity to spam pro-Trump memes on American Facebook.

Looking for a conspiracy there is pure kookery.