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Russian Interference Was More Than 'Facebook Ads' As Kushner Said : NPR
Fact Check: Russian Interference Was More Than 'Facebook Ads' As Kushner Said President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser said the investigations into Russian interference have been more damaging than the interference itself. But there was more to it than online ads.
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Jared Kushner spoke about Russian election interference during the Time 100 Summit 2019 in New York City.
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In a rare public appearance on Tuesday, Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and one of his closest advisers, said that the multiple investigations into Russian election interference have been more harmful to American democracy than the original interference itself.
"The whole thing is just a big distraction for the country," Kushner said at a Time magazine event in New York City. "You look at what Russia did — buying some Facebook ads to try and sow dissent. And it's a terrible thing, but I think the investigation and all the speculation that's happened over the past two years has had a much harsher impact on our democracy."
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In describing Russia's efforts leading up to the 2016 election, Kushner emphasized what he called the relatively small amount of money Russian agents spent advertising on social media.
"They said they spent $160,000. I spent $160,000 on Facebook in three hours during the campaign," Kushner said. "If you look at the magnitude of what they did and what they accomplished, I think the ensuing investigations have been way more harmful to our country."
Fact check: Were Facebook ads the extent of Russian election interference?
The short answer: No.
The long answer: The redacted version of Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller's report revealed a years-long plot by the Russian government to interfere in the U.S. that investigators called "sweeping and systemic."
As to the amount of money expended on Facebook ads, the company said Russian operatives did spend less than $200,000 on advertising on the platform — but that doesn't account for the organic content the operatives created and shared.
Not only were influence specialists within Russia's Internet Research Agency purchasing normal advertisements, they were authoring their own posts, memes and other content as they posed as American users.
They also reached out to politically active Americans, posing as like-minded supporters, and helped organize rallies and other events in the real world.
Facebook says the Internet Research Agency may have reached as many as 126 million people. Separately, Twitter announced that about 1.4 million people may have been in contact with IRA-controlled accounts.
The social media aspect of the interference was just one dimension. Cyberattackers also went after political victims in the United States — whose emails and other data were released publicly to embarrass them — and state elections officials and other targets. And there may have been other avenues of interference as well.
The origins of the scheme
Russian operatives lied to get into the U.S. as early as 2014 on "intelligence-gathering missions." They traveled across the country to get the lay of the land before ramping up efforts to try to interfere with American politics.
By September 2016, two months before the U.
S. presidential election, the Internet Research Agency was working with an overall monthly budget that reached over $1.25 million. It employed hundreds of employees, a graphics department, a data analysis department, a search-engine optimization department, an IT department and a finance department, according to an indictment filed last year by Mueller's team.
And it hasn't stopped.
The U.S. military reportedly blocked the Internet access of the IRA during last year's midterm elections to keep it from interfering with the midterm election. U.S. Cyber Command also targeted Russian cyber operatives, according to a report by The New York Times, with direct messages letting them know that American intelligence was tracking them.
And in October, a Russian woman was accused, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court, of conspiring to sow discord and division in the U.S political system.
That conspiracy, the complaint said, "continues to this day."
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Facebook: Russian-linked accounts bought $150,000 in ads during 2016 race
A quarter of the Russian-linked ads were also geographically targeted at specific Facebook audiences in the U.
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Facebook accounts with apparent Russian ties purchased about $150,000 in political ads aimed at American voters during key periods of the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the social networking company.
The internal Facebook findings – which it said in a blog post it had already turned over to U.S. authorities – comes as the Silicon Valley giant faces intense scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional committees concerned about how both real internet trolls and fake news bots preyed on U.S. voters during last year’s election.
Facebook found some $100,000 in ad spending from June 2015 through May 2017 connected to about 470 accounts that were deemed as inauthentic and in violation of its internal guidelines. These accounts – associated with about 3,000 ads – were connected to each other “and likely operated out of Russia,” Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer, wrote in a Wednesday blog post.
While the “vast majority” of those ads didn’t reference any specific presidential candidate, or even the election itself, Stamos explained that the Russian ads that Facebook uncovered were designed to amplify hot-button social and political issues, such as LGBT rights, race, immigration and gun rights.
A quarter of the Russian-linked ads were also geographically targeted at specific Facebook audiences in the U.S., and most of them ran in 2015 before the first primaries and caucuses when the GOP and Democratic presidential fields were still packed with multiple candidates. While the amount of spending on the ads was nominal at best, the fact that it even occurred is likely to reinforce concerns expressed by some Democrats that Russia may have used Facebook to promote narratives that flattered Trump and bashed Clinton in key Rust Belt swing states that helped the real estate mogul take the White House.
“This is no longer supposition,” said Andrew Bleeker, the president of Bully Pulpit Interactive, a Democratic digital advertising firm that worked for Clinton in 2016.
On Capitol Hill, California Rep. Adam Schiff – the top Democrat in the House’s Russia probe – reacted to the Facebook analysis to note he’s trying to get an Intelligence Committee hearing on “the use of social media by Russia during the campaign.” He said there’s been no agreement yet about which witnesses would be called.
Separately, Facebook also found another $50,000 in political ad spending – for about 2,200 ads – that were bought from accounts “that might have originated in Russia,” Stamos wrote.
Stamos explained that Facebook cast a wide net looking for accounts “with very weak signals of a connection and not associated with any known organized effort.” It also was looking for ads bought from accounts with U.S. internet protocol addresses but with the language setting dialed in to Russian.
The overall spending figure for the Russian-linked ads – at about $150,000 – is a relatively small amount compared to the overall digital ad buy made during the course of the 2016 campaign.
While firm spending totals are difficult to assess because of loose federal election reporting requirements, media reports in the aftermath of last year’s presidential race have cited $55 million in spending from one of Hillary Clinton’s primary digital firms, and $90 million spent on Donald Trump’s side through his main digital adviser, Brad Parscale.
Facebook has been under the microscope for months to explain how its platform was exploited during the last presidential campaign. That race remains under investigation for potential collusion between Trump’s team and a Russian government that U.S. intelligence agencies stated earlier this year had a “clear preference” for the Republican.
In May, Oxford Internet Institute professor Philip Howard and colleague Robert Gorwa co-authored an op-ed in the Washington Post urging lawmakers to force Facebook’s hand and produce any underlying metadata about questionable social media accounts that may have played a role in the election outcome.
“If there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian influence operations, Facebook may be able to spot that too,” the researchers wrote. “In many ways, massive coordinated propaganda campaigns are just another form of election interference. If Facebook has data on this, it needs to share it.”
Facebook has undertaken its own internal review of how it tracked and handled activity on its site during the presidential election, including the spread of fake news. New policies include limits on news feeds that share stories with consistent clickbait headlines and blocks on pages that repeatedly share fake news stories to advertise. The company also removed 30,000 fake accounts before the French elections in April and tens of thousands of accounts before the United Kingdom’s snap election in June.
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How to rent a Facebook account and is it worth it
There are many ways to make money on Facebook: sell goods and services, publish ads, redirect traffic to a third-party site.
But there is another monetization scheme.
The editors of MC.today figured out how to rent a Facebook account and how profitable it is to use this service.
Why a Facebook account is rented
A person who rents an account receives passive income every month while the page is used. For a month, special services promise up to $500 per account. The amount depends on the quality of the profile, geolocation and other parameters.
Arbitrators rent profiles (specialists who attract buyers to advertisers for a fee. - Ed.) . They do not use the page itself, but only the advertising account.
An example of an announcement about renting an account
An advertising account on Facebook can be blocked due to actions in the account or in ads: when the advertising budget increases sharply, the rules of the social network or the law are violated.
For more information on what content you can post on Facebook and what you shouldn't, read here.
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If you are temporarily blocked, you can try to restore your account, but this does not always work. In this case, you need to contact the technical support of the site. It is better to write in English: this way the chances of a quick response increase. The answer will have to wait from several days to weeks. As a result, a message may come that the decision to block is final.
It is for fraud and advertising of prohibited products that an office can be blocked forever. If you create a new advertising account, then Facebook will track it and block it again.
Therefore, in order to launch advertising, an affiliate has to rent other people's accounts.
Other accounts are also rented by people who launch an advertising campaign from several offices .
Facebook does not allow multiple accounts. It is possible to have two profiles if one is personal and the other company.
How to safely rent out your Facebook account
If you decide to rent out your Facebook account, you need to place ads on special sites or find an affiliate offer yourself. Services where they find and place ads:
- Freelance exchanges . On Freelancehunt, Freelance.ua, Upwork and other exchanges, they find offers from arbitrageurs. The customer offers the price, but you can bargain. Exchanges are one of the most reliable services for renting social media pages. Payment goes through a secure payment system, which is controlled by the service itself.
- Special sites . On Rent.dont.farm, Rentusyourfbook, Arsial.info and other sites you can rent an account for $109 per month. Such services are often blocked, as Facebook is constantly fighting with tenants.
- Social networks .
On Telegram, Instagram and Facebook, you can find pages, communities and channels where social network accounts are rented or rented. Enter in the search box "rent accounts", "rent profiles" and similar queries. Here you can find offers in different price categories. But social networks are not as reliable sources as exchanges and special sites. - Ad aggregator sites . On aggregator sites like OLX and others, you can submit or find page rental ads. True, they are rare here. Choose only company representatives. That will be safer.
When your ad is accepted or you respond to the offer yourself, you must be checked. A Facebook profile is suitable for rent if:
- The account is at least six months old. Sometimes they take accounts from only one year.
- You must have at least 20 friends per page.
- Advertising cabinet has not been used yet.
- The page is live: an avatar is loaded, there are publications and activity under them, personal information is filled in.
- At least two or three activities per month.
- Account verified by phone number.
How to protect yourself when renting an account
- Request ad creatives to make sure that the content will not violate the rules of the social network. If the rules are violated, the advertising account will be blocked in a couple of days. In case of violation of the rules for placing advertising, not the entire account is blocked, but only the advertising account.
- Give your account only to those about whom you have read a lot of reviews from real people or acquaintances. Always check the services and their representatives in Google.
- Agree only for long-term cooperation.
- Do not forget to unlink your bank card from your account and advertising account so that you are not charged for someone else's advertising.
- Do not rent your account if your correspondence contains photos of documents, passwords, banking or other data that scammers can use.
2 ways to rent a Facebook account
- Give login and password . Easy, but not the safest way. When you transfer data from a personal profile, the person gets access to other data: correspondence, media, and so on. Arbitrators usually do not need your data, but scammers will definitely use it.
- Use a remote access program . If you are afraid for your data, then offer the affiliate to work through remote access. These can be programs: Chrome Remote Desktop, TeamViewer. Here you will see what is being done on the screen of another computer. Coordinate the working hours with the arbitrator and see what he does with your account.
After agreeing on the terms of the transaction, decide how and when the money will be transferred. Payment methods:
- to a bank card;
- to a bank account;
- to an electronic wallet;
- in cryptocurrency;
- top up phone balance.
How to rent a Facebook account
People look for accounts to rent in social networks, exchanges and aggregator sites. You can also find such offers on Facebook, but they are constantly blocked.
In order not to search, but to receive applications from landlords, you need to place an ad on the same sites or create your own website. The ad indicates the requirements for the account: the age of the profile, the number of friends, activity, geolocation, and so on. This way you can narrow your search. Only eligible account holders will contact you. Also indicate the cost of rent per month.
If you have your own website, then you can make a form on it that the profile owner needs to fill out. Go to the page and check the information.
Important! Check if followers and other account activity are not cheated. Facebook does it manually.
Announcements can also be posted on the forums under the discussion of the topic about renting accounts.
Such publications are created and discussed only by the target audience.
You can also buy a Facebook account. The cost is from $3. If the account does not work or is quickly blocked, it will still turn out to be cheaper than a monthly rental. Such accounts minimize the risks: the owner will not be able to change the password without warning, and he can do it at any time.
Reviews about renting Facebook accounts
There are a lot of negative comments on the net: people were deceived, they paid little, their account was blocked or stolen.
Some other scammers do this: they pay only the first month, and then stop paying and block the account.
Positive reviews are mostly only on exchanges or special services. Users even attach screenshots of payments. But how true they are is a big question.
Conclusion
Renting a Facebook account means getting a small but passive income.
To prevent your advertising account from being blocked, carefully choose affiliates: read reviews, look for them only on trusted sites.
But remember: renting a social media account is a big risk for the profile owner. Do not rent your account to unverified affiliates and if you store personal data on Facebook.
| Benefits | Risks | |
| For owners of | Monthly passive income | 1. Advertising cabinet blocking 2. Access to correspondence, content and personal data 3. They can charge money for advertising if a card is linked to the account |
| For affiliates | Ready-made personal account for using the advertising account | 1. You can pay for a cheated account 2. The owner can change the account password at any time |
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