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 2017-q1/2017-01 folder.
There was a handful of ads targeting Facebook employees. The first one, p(1)0005035 was posted under “Panther Melanie” seeking people to help her contact Facebook about creating her own sticker pack. It received no clicks.
P(1)0005943 was posted under “Melanie Panther” and targeted to male Facebook employees. It promised to show the five hottest women to apply for jobs at Facebook. Again, no clicks were received:
P(1)0005945 was posted under “Melanie Black” and promised the same. This time it got a whole nineteen clicks:
THIS IS AN OPEN THREAD. Take care, and be well.