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If Manafort and Gates shared 70-some pages of polling data with Kilimnik, here's what that might have looked like -- and what it might suggest. wapo.st/2ExRKmv
One thing that seems to confuse people is what "targeted" means.
If Russia had good information on messages that would convince very specific demographic groups in specific geographies, getting that message to those people means targeting them.
If Russia had good information on messages that would convince very specific demographic groups in specific geographies, getting that message to those people means targeting them.
That means paid advertising. It's how Facebook makes its money, giving people/companies/campaigns the ability to do that.
We know what ads were bought as part of the Russian effort and where they were targeted.
Those ads were almost always broadly targeted geographically and demographically. They were more common after the election than in the months immediately before. washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
Those ads were almost always broadly targeted geographically and demographically. They were more common after the election than in the months immediately before. washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
Maybe there's more info out there! But the evidence we have doesn't suggest that Russia used Facebook to narrowly target specific groups with pointed messages in important areas right before the election.
This is another important point! The data from Cambridge Analytica was years out of date and it's not clear that Trump's campaign did anything with it anyway. CA has become a bogeyman in this but it doesn't deserve to be.
