To review, a Russian 'troll farm' spent approximately $100,000 on Facebook ads (the majority of which were bought after the 2016 US election) and operated on other social media platforms with the goal of 'sowing discord' via hyperbolic posts on immigration, black identity politics and Jesus arm wrestling Satan in the name of Donald Trump.
Rob Goldman ✔ @robjective · Replying to @robjective
Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to effect the outcome of the 2016 US election. I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal.
Rob Goldman ✔ @robjective
The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election. https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/10/hard-questions-russian-ads-delivered-to-congress/ …