This is part of an ongoing series where I review some of the ads purchased by the Russians. In doing so I hope we can get a better understanding of what they were trying to do, and how to recognize it the next time we’re faced with propaganda.
If you want to follow along, the ads can all be downloaded here. All of today’s ads can be found in the 2016-q4/2016-11 folder.
Yesterday I posted about two ads that had nothing to do with African American interests. There were also posts from a group, Watch the Police, that weren’t expressly about Black interest topics. However police misconduct ads have focused on the racial divide. Here’s their introductory post, p(1)0005626:
P(1)0005636 took the time to criticize President Obama for “finish his career without doing this job”:
P(1)0006540 discusses a man beaten by Minneapolis police at a train station. Without a name it’s difficult to find who this may have been:
THIS IS AN OPEN THREAD. Take care, and be well.