How Russian Facebook Ads Divided and Targeted US Voters Before the 2016 Election

Published: April 17, 2018, 7:59 a.m.

When Young Mie Kim began studying political ads on Facebook in August of 2016\u2014while Hillary Clinton was still leading the polls\u2014 few people had ever heard of the Russian propaganda group, Internet Research Agency. Not even Facebook itself understood how the group was manipulating the platform's users to influence the election.