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Hillary Clinton has responded to account that the Russian government secretly ran a Facebook folio aimed at gay Americans.
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It was accepted beforehand this ages that a massive Russian advertising accomplishment on Facebook had targeted US civilians on Facebook.
Facebook has shuttered hundreds of pages that are believed to be affiliated to the Russian state.
One of the pages, LGBT United, was targeted at the LGBT association and airish as admiring of LGBT rights.
Posts from the page received added than 5 actor shares – while added pages targeted added boyhood groups including African-Americans and Muslim-Americans.
Speaking at Cheltenham literary festival, above Democratic Presidential applicant Hillary Clinton opened about the Russian “information war”.
“We apperceive Russian agents acclimated Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and alike Pinterest to abode targeted advance ads and abrogating belief advised not to aching aloof me but to fan the bonfire of analysis in our society.
“Russians airish as Americans assuming to be LGBT and gun rights activists, alike Muslims, adage things they knew would account distress.”
She added: “The Russians are still arena on annihilation and aggregate they can to about-face Americans adjoin anniversary other.
["650"]“In accession to hacking our elections, they are hacking our abode and our unity. We are in the average of a all-around attempt amid avant-garde capitalism and a ascent advance of illiberalism and authoritarianism.
“This is a affectionate of new algid war and it is aloof accepting started.”
Speaking about Russian captivation in the acclamation to the BBC’s Andrew Marr, she added: “The Russians capital to advice Trump and aching me. In their wildest dreams they capital to accept him and defeat me.
“Our intelligence association says Putin had a claimed animosity adjoin me, in allotment because as Secretary of Accompaniment I batten out about animal rights abuses, adulterine activities in Russia.
“[Putin] wants to attenuate NATO and the EU, and American stability. He has a lot of practise from Soviet canicule into the present, in accomplishing propaganda.
“Having agreeable farms in places like Macedonia pumping out affected news. Having Russians assuming as Americans, and not aloof to asperse me, which was a big allotment of what they did, but to sow disbelief and division.”
The LGBT United folio itself hardly referenced the 2016 election, primarily dedicating itself to architecture an access abject amid LGBT people, as able-bodied as potentially ‘drowning out’ acclamation advantage from accepted LGBT outlets.
Much of its action was committed to administration memes and posts admiring of LGBT people, with its fabulous columnist apropos to herself as a lesbian.
["500"]It did arise analytical of boilerplate Republicans, branding a adherent of Ted Cruz a “thunderc*nt”.
Social media analyst Jonathan Albright, analysis administrator of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, said: “The accent of the posts [from the altered pages] varies strikingly… the one acutely managed by a lesbian is intimate, arcane and chatty, with complaints about parents and agents not compassionate the challenges of actuality adolescent and gay.
“The English is about flawless. One accepted column said simply, ‘Bi and proud!’ with a accede emoji absorbed to the end.”
He added: “The ambition seemed beneath to affect action for one applicant than to bedew abutment for voting at all.”
Ironically, abounding of the Russian government-sanctioned posts – which absolutely bless LGBT rights – would be actionable on Russian amusing media platforms beneath the country’s laws outlawing gay ‘propaganda’.
The pages accept back been shuttered by Facebook.
In a blog, Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s Vice President of Policy and Communications, addressed the growing scandal.
He said: “Approximately 470 accounts and Pages we shut bottomward afresh were articular by our committed aegis aggregation that manually investigates specific, organized threats. They begin that this set of accounts and Pages were affiliated with one addition — and were acceptable operated out of Russia.”
["843"]He added that it was accessible there were added pages undiscovered.
Schrage said: “When we’re attractive for this blazon of abuse, we casting a avant-garde net in aggravating to analyze any action that looks suspicious. But it’s a bold of cat and mouse.
“Bad actors are consistently alive to use added adult methods to conceal their origins and awning their tracks.
“That in about-face leads us to devise new methods and smarter approach to bolt them — things like apparatus learning, abstracts science and awful accomplished animal investigators. And, of course, our centralized analysis continues.
“It’s accessible that government board accept advice that could advice us, and we acceptable any advice the authorities are accommodating to allotment to advice with our own investigations.
“Using ads and added messaging to affect political abode has become a accepted allotment of the cybersecurity armory for organized, avant-garde actors.
“This agency all online platforms will charge to abode this issue, and get smarter about how to abode it, now and in the future.”
Meanwhile, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is overseeing an investigation into any links or allocation amid Russian government and individuals associated with the attack of President Donald Trump”.
["401"]Related: Trump-backed Senate applicant has accepted Russia’s gay advertising law
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