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Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AlNE6JyELO0/facebook-says-10-million-us-users-saw-russia-linked-ads
Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads
Some 10 million people in the United States saw politically divisive ads on Facebook that the company said were purchased in Russia in the months before and after last year's U.S. presidential election, Facebook said on Monday. From a report: Facebook, which had not previously given such an estimate, said in a statement that it used modeling to estimate how many people saw at least one of the 3,000 ads. It also said that 44 percent of the ads were seen before the November 2016 election and 56 percent were seen afterward. The ads have sparked anger toward Facebook and, within the United States, toward Russia since the world's largest social network disclosed their existence last month. Moscow has denied involvement with the ads.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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