30 Oct 2017 6:41 pm
Just saw a pundit on TV say that if just 1% of those people were influenced by those ads, that would be 15 times more than the margin of defeat in the race.Facebook says Russia-linked posts may have reached 126 million users.
Facebook Inc. says a Russian group posted more than 80,000 times on its service during and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, potentially reaching as many as 126 million users.
The company plans to disclose these numbers to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the testimony.
The person declined to be named because the committee has not officially released the testimony.
Facebook, Twitter Inc. and Google, a division of Alphabet Inc., are scheduled to testify at three hearings Tuesday and Wednesday.
Twitter plans to tell the same committee that it has uncovered and shut down 2,752 accounts linked to the same group, Russia's Internet Research Agency, which is known for promoting pro-Russian government positions.
That number is nearly 14 times as large as the number of accounts Twitter handed over to congressional committees three weeks ago, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly about the new findings before Tuesday's hearing.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technol ... story.html
I didn't do the math, but 45 won the electoral college by about 70,000 votes in 3 states.
You can't tell me those ads had no influence over the election.