Mueller got to Steele already.Originally Posted by Jaw
I wonder if he told him not to speak with either of the Committees in the House or Senate. That's some strong smokescreens by the Press Secretary. There's absolutely zero reason for Mueller to peak or announce any evidence they've found. It's an investigation.
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President Donald Trump talked on Twitter, but Facebook was the crucial tool that helped elect him, says the man who directed the digital aspects of the Trump campaign. Brad Parscale tells Lesley Stahl how he fine-tuned political ads posted on Facebook to directly reach voters with the exact messages they cared most about – infrastructure key among them -- and had handpicked Republican Facebook employees to guide him. Stahl's report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes Sunday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
"Twitter is how [Trump] talked to the people, Facebook was going to be how he won," Parscale tells Stahl. Parscale says he used the majority of his digital ad budget on Facebook ads and explained how efficient they could be, particularly in reaching the rural vote. "So now Facebook lets you get to…15 people in the Florida Panhandle that I would never buy a TV commercial for," says Parscale. And people anywhere could be targeted with the messages they cared about. "Infrastructure…so I started making ads that showed the bridge crumbling…that's micro targeting…I can find the 1,500 people in one town that care about infrastructure. Now, that might be a voter that normally votes Democrat," he says. Parscale says the campaign would average 50-60,000 different ad versions every day, some days peaking at 100,000 separate iterations – changing design, colors, backgrounds and words – all in an effort to refine ads and engage users.
Parscale received help utilizing Facebook's technology from Facebook employees provided by the company who showed up for work to his office multiple days a week. He says they had to be partisan and he questioned them to make sure. "I wanted people who supported Donald Trump." Parscale calls these Facebook employees "embeds" who could teach him every aspect of the technology. "I want to know everything you would tell Hillary's campaign plus some," he says he told them.
Both campaigns used Facebook's advertising technology extensively to reach voters, but Parscale says the Clinton campaign didn't go as far as using "embeds." "I had heard that they did not accept any of [Facebook's] offers."
The conservative Parscale sees an irony in all this. "These social platforms are all invented by very liberal people on the West and East Coast. And we figure out how to use it to push conservative values. I don't think they thought that would ever happen," says Parscale.
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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/po...-20171006.html
Casey Michel, a journalist who for years has tracked Russia’s efforts to influence Americans, was the first to link the Heart of Texas page to Moscow. It took Facebook months to remove the page, which had more than 249,000 followers when it was shut down last month, and a spokesman said it was “likely operated out of Russia.” Now CNN has confirmed that the page was one of 470 Facebook accounts and pages turned over to Congress as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Facebook says ads purchased by these fake accounts were viewed by 10 million people.
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By Mark Sumner
Monday Oct 09, 2017 · 10:51 AM EST
If Russia had been purchasing ads on national, or even local, television stations across the country, it likely would have been spotted quickly—even post-Citizens United, where organizations can outspend official campaigns via anonymous donations. But by using social media instead, Russian propaganda specialists could deliver ads tailored to the interest of individuals and focus those ads on the states and districts where they would have the most impact. And they could do it cheaply.
For the kind of investment that wouldn’t support a run for state representative these days, Russia was able to place more then 3,000 highly targeted ads to over 10 million people, with a concentration in states like Michigan where the interval between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was as little as 10,700 votes.
Now The Washington Post is reporting Google has revealed part of the range of Russian ads that ran through different aspects of their platform.
The Silicon Valley giant has found that tens of thousands of dollars were spent on ads by Russian agents who aimed to spread disinformation across Google’s many products, which include YouTube, as well as advertising associated with Google search, Gmail, and the company’s DoubleClick ad network, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss matters that have not been made public. Google runs the world’s largest online advertising business, and YouTube is the world’s largest online video site.
People in critical states were getting ads on Facebook, search ads on Google, ads on YouTube, ads in their email, ads delivered through DoubleClick onto almost any web page—ads that were created by Russian propaganda specialists with the purpose of disrupting the U.S. election. Many of the ads seemed intent on increasing racial and religious tensions, as they provided exaggerated imagery designed to drive home the idea that America was divided along racial lines. They also sought to play on political wounds that the Russians had helped open during the primary period.
Some of the ads, which cost a total of about $100,000, touted Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and the Green party candidate Jill Stein during the campaign, people familiar with those ads said.
As with Facebook, the overall cost of ads delivered through Google appears to have been relatively low: less than $100,000. Previous to this, Google had insisted that it had procedures in place that would have stopped Russian agents from using its platform.
Google previously downplayed the problem of Russian meddling on its platforms. Last month, Google spokeswoman Andrea Faville told The Washington Post that the company is "always monitoring for abuse or violations of our policies and we've seen no evidence this type of ad campaign was run on our platforms."
But an internal investigation didn’t come up clean. It came up with evidence that Google’s whole network of tools for distributing information had been utilized in the effort to disrupt the election.
In addition to Facebook and Google, Twitter was also host to accounts that were used to create, retweet, and spread Russian-sourced material. And, like the other sites, it also played host to Russian-authored ads.
Twitter said that it shut down 201 accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency. It also disclosed that the account for the news site RT, which the company linked to the Kremlin, spent $274,100 on its platform in 2016. Twitter has not said how many times the Russian disinformation was shared. The company is investigating that matter and trying to map the relationship between Russian accounts and well-known media personalities as well as influencers associated with the campaigns of Donald Trump and other candidates, said a person familiar with Twitter's internal investigation.
The way in which these tools allow individual users to be targeted based on search history and demographics means it may be impossible to recreate the experience of any particular voter in the run-up to the election. But it seems clear that many, particularly in the areas most likely to sway the results, were getting hit with multiple, repetitive ads from every direction—and those ads were designed to produce exactly the results that the election delivered.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...Twitter-others
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Fascinating stuff. I wonder if television networks will lobby against targeted online political ads after these revelations. It seems obvious that using a person's online profile is a more efficient method of campaigning than just canvassing the TV airwaves.
Oh man.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/1...hacking-243603
Hacker study: Russia could get into U.S. voting machines
American voting machines are full of foreign-made hardware and software, including from China, and a top group of hackers and national security officials says that means they could have been infiltrated last year and into the future.
DEFCON, the world’s largest hacker conference, will release its findings on Tuesday, months after hosting a July demonstration in which hackers quickly broke into 25 different types of voting machines.
The report, to be unveiled at an event at the Atlantic Council, comes as the investigation continues by four Hill committees, plus Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, on top of the firm intelligence community assessments of interference.
Though the report offers no proof of an attack last year, experts involved with it say they’re sure it is possible—and probable—and that the chances of a bigger attack in the future are high.
“From a technological point of view, this is something that is clearly doable,” said Sherri Ramsay, the former director of the federal Central Security Service Threat Operations Center, which handles cyber threats for the military and the National Security Agency. “For us to turn a blind eye to this, I think that would be very irresponsible on our part.”
Carter page going to plead the 5th when called to testify
I'm sure it's nothing though
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
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Matthew Miller Retweeted Ken Dilanian
You can tell what Trump is worried about by what Nunes attacks. In the spring it was U.S. intelligence collection, today it’s the dossier.
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Robert Mercer
Cambridge Analytica
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Iike this logic. Hillary staffers were given immunity deals despite not giving any evidence used to prosecute anyone. Why did they need immunity if there was no crime? Why was immunity given out like candy on Halloween to Hillary staffers if they weren't going to give evidence that can be used to prosecute anyone? That's kind of the whole point of immunity deals.
I am sure it's nothing though.
Why did the guy who set up Clintons private email server plead the 5th?
I am sure it's nothing though.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
Just as troubling to me is the fact that while he was in charge of securing an email server that hosted confidential data, he had to ask Reddit for advice on how to run that server. I would expect and hope for someone a bit more qualified than that.
Not as troubling as destroying evidence during a fbi investigation. A disgrace HRC isn't in jail.
Natural Immunity Croc
Do y'all like, have a cigarette after discussing HRC ?
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I get it...you want us to stop talking about her because it's clear that one o the leaders of your party is a criminal that should be in jail.
nah, you can talk about whatever you want if it helps distract from your swallowing Russian talking points,
I was simply wondering if after you finish you ya know, smoke ?
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I only smoke pot on occasion so i suppose the answer is no to your question.
But let's talk about a fake conspiracy to get over the fact that the people have rejected the drastic push to the left the Democrats have execute the last 30 years.
When did I discuss HRC? I was talking about a server admin who isn't very good at his job.
cool
none of that has anything to do with this
but thanks for your thoughts on an unrelated manner
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
This is an example of what they call Russian interference in our democracy. Giving air time to anti war politicians. I find it far worse of a crime that our own media won't cover these guys because they are anti war. I Could understand if it was just going on now. They are mostly retired, but what they did to Dr Paul in 2012 was umpteen times worse than anything Russia did.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/14/russia-us-politics-social-media-facebook
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