US Election – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:33:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 US Election – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Is Facebook Covering Up Russian Hacking Of The 2016 Election? https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/10/is-facebook-covering-up-russian-hacking-of-the-2016-election/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/10/is-facebook-covering-up-russian-hacking-of-the-2016-election/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:10:26 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9482 Continue reading Is Facebook Covering Up Russian Hacking Of The 2016 Election? →]]> Facebook apparently knew quite early on that Russian agents were manipulating Facebook feeds and Facebook users in order to influence the American election, favoring Trump and working against Clinton.

But they publicly denied that they had any of this information, and went so far as to delete information about this in a report. The report contained details about Russia that Facebook legal and marketing teams removed before the report’s release.

Then, as you may know, they eventually admitted it.

The result of this long and inexplicable delay may have set back by months our understanding of the whole Trump-Russian scandal.

Watch this for all the gory details:

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