See the huge congressional data dump of Russian Facebook ads

Talk about a data dump.

On Thursday, the House Democrats of the Judiciary Committee released a trove of Facebook ads that the Internet Research Agency — implicated as the digital organization Russia utilized to promote propaganda and fake news on the internet — published to "sow discord" in America. And the document cache is... enormous.

The ads posted between April 2015 and August 2017 amount about 8.8GB of data. That may not sound like a lot in 2018, where smartphones routinely have as much as 256GB of storage, but the documents are all simple PDFs. It takes a lot of PDFs of ads — 3,519, to be precise — to take up that much space.  Read more...

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