{"id":72910,"date":"2017-09-29T02:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T09:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/russian-operatives-used-facebook-ads-to-exploit-divisions-over-black-lives-matter-muslims"},"modified":"2017-09-29T02:22:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T09:22:34","slug":"russian-operatives-used-facebook-ads-to-exploit-divisions-over-black-lives-matter-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/russian-operatives-used-facebook-ads-to-exploit-divisions-over-black-lives-matter-muslims","title":{"rendered":"Russian operatives used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matter, Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-operatives-used-facebook-ads-to-exploit-divisions-over-black-lives-matter-muslims.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The batch of more than 3,000 Russian-bought ads that Facebook is preparing to turn over to Congress shows a deep understanding of social divides in American society, with some ads promoting African-American rights groups including <a id=\"ORCIG000122\" title=\"Black Lives Matter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/topic\/social-issues\/black-lives-matter-ORCIG000122-topic.html\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> and others suggesting that these same groups pose a rising political threat, say people familiar with the covert influence campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian campaign \u2014 taking advantage of Facebook\u2019s ability to simultaneously send contrary messages to different groups of users based on their political and demographic characteristics \u2014 also sought to sow discord among religious groups. Other ads highlighted support for Democrat <a id=\"PEPLT007433\" title=\"Hillary Clinton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/topic\/politics-government\/government\/hillary-clinton-PEPLT007433-topic.html\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> among Muslim women.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/bluesky\/technology\/ct-russia-facebook-black-lives-matter-20170925-story.html\">http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/bluesky\/technology\/ct-russia-f...story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The batch of more than 3,000 Russian-bought ads that Facebook is preparing to turn over to Congress shows a deep understanding of social divides in American society, with some ads promoting African-American rights groups including Black Lives Matter and others suggesting that these same groups pose a rising political threat, say people familiar with the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}