Article 36R3N Here are the Kremlin-backed Facebook ads designed to foment discord in US

Here are the Kremlin-backed Facebook ads designed to foment discord in US

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David Kravets
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Today is Day 2 of top officials from Facebook, Google, and Twitter being grilled by congressional committees about how their platforms played host to a disinformation campaign perpetrated by Russian state actors.

Facebook, which has conceded that Kremlin-backed ads might have been seen by as many as 126 million people, has been taking the biggest beatings in these hearings.

Today, the House Intelligence Committee finally, and officially, released some of the Facebook ads and the handles of several thousand fake Twitter accounts-all of which were designed to foment discord in the United States.

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