{"id":432504,"date":"2017-10-31T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T08:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/russia-linked-posts-reached-126m-facebook-users-in-us\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T08:35:44","slug":"russia-linked-posts-reached-126m-facebook-users-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/russia-linked-posts-reached-126m-facebook-users-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-linked posts \u2018reached 126m Facebook users in US\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>The social networking site said about 80,000 posts were produced before and after the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the posts focused on divisive social and political messages.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook released the figures ahead of a Senate hearing where it \u2013 together with Twitter and Google \u2013 will detail Russia\u2019s impact on the popular sites.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has repeatedly denied allegations that it attempted to influence the last US presidential election, in which Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate major development on Monday, an investigation by independent counsel Robert Mueller into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia produced its first charges against three former aides, and a guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has dismissed allegations of collusion with Moscow, and has repeatedly called on Mrs Clinton to be investigated.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures released by Facebook have been seen by Reuters news agency and the Washington Post newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The 80,000 posts were published between June 2015 and August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said they were posted by a Russian company linked to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese actions run counter to Facebook\u2019s mission of building community and everything we stand for,\u201d wrote Facebook\u2019s general counsel Colin Stretch, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we are determined to do everything we can to address this new threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Google also revealed that Russian trolls uploaded more than 1,000 videos on YouTube on 18 different channels, according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Twitter found and suspended all 2,752 accounts that it had tracked to Russia-based Internet Research Agency, a source familiar with the company\u2019s written testimony was quoted as saying by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-bottom bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-268363-673641090\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"268363\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/newmont_beyondmind92870.gif\" alt=\"Homepage Header Ad\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the past two years. The social networking site said about 80,000 posts were produced before and after the 2016 presidential election. Most of the posts focused on divisive social and political messages. Facebook released the figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":432505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia-linked posts \u2018reached 126m Facebook users in US\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/31\/russia-linked-posts-reached-126m-facebook-users-in-us\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Russia-linked posts \u2018reached 126m Facebook users in US\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the past two years. 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