126 million Facebook users have seen in period between June 2015 and August 2017 on platform ads created and paid by Mutmaßlichrussischen players. That said a representative of company this week in a hearing before U.S. Congress, Contraryto also Twitter and Google were loaded. This confirmed: DieEinflussnahme on presidential election campaign was greater than Zunächstangenommen and VonFacebook claimed.
Already in September, Facebook DemUntersuchungsausschuss of Congress 3,000 suspicious ads. On Wednesday Veröffentlichtedieser Committee a small selection. It shows how, among or things, Internet research agency based in St. Petersburg, which manipulates Meinungenim meaning of Kremlin, was active on Facebook. With some nurwenigen hundred euros, company was able to display ads targeted at individual user groups, regions in USA and current Ereignissezugeschnitten.
The Facebook business model for PersonalisierteWerbung was made possible. The data of all users, ir location, ir likes, those of Ihnenbesuchten websites – all this is collected and ZuWerbezwecken analyzed. Advertisers can use this to address people with specific hobbies or preferences. And because this process is much more automated and also less transparent (something that DasFacebook wants to change at least in area of political ads), it can ausgenutztwerden.
For first time, it is now clear how propaganda content looked undwelche intention of ir creators. They aimed primarily at DieGegensätze in American society, played out differences of opinion, candidates and resentment, and thus tried to divide society furr, as following selection shows. The TechCrunch it portal has also summarised documents published by Committee in a table.
Trump against Clinton"Down withHillary": Unlike initially suspected, it was in ads Wenigerdarum to support a single candidate, i.e. to call VonDonald Trump. Some of m were still targeting candidates. Facebook users who favored both Trump content and were based in New York received an invitation to an anti-Clinton demo. They wurdelaut Facebook seen by 15,255 users and cost 250 US dollars.
© House Committee on Intelligence"Not My President": In return, an organization that was dedicated to black-lives-matter movement and supporters, also invited an event in New York, albeit with less success: Only 188 people reached ad, Dieallerdings also did not even Cost two dollars.
© House Committee on Intelligence Black against whiteTime and again was tried to update current Ereignisseaufzugreifen. The murder of two policemen in Boston in October 2016 was portrayed in an ad as "cruel attack einesBlack-lives-matter activists" – although perpetrator probably had no relationship with this movement. In midst of ongoing discussion about DiePolizeigewalt in USA, creators of ads tried to take side of (white) Cops and black activists zuschmähen.
© House Committee on IntelligenceOn or hand, re were ads of groups called Woke Black and black matters, which supposedly made mselves strong for black's rights. A screen of black matters WurdeNutzern played out, sites like Blacknews. Combesuchten and in places like Atlanta or Fergusonlebten. In this case, customers could reach nearly 360,000 users for a price of around 1,000 US dollars.
© House Committee on Intelligence Date Of Update: 03 November 2017, 12:03
