Questions for Facebook About Russia’s Use of Its Network<br />Maryland, which was targeted by 262 ads in comparison to Wisconsin’s 55, wasn’t<br />up for grabs; it was a state the Democratic candidate carried by 26 percent.”<br />Do the company’s records show that Russia-backed ads and posts reached a higher number of people in certain states or regions of the United States<br />Mr. Mueller’s latest indictment says that, after the middle of 2016, Russians often talked about targeting<br />“purple states,” or those in which the number of Republican and Democratic voters are close.<br />As Senator Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, noted last year:<br />“What you haven’t heard is that almost five times more ads were targeted at Maryland than Wisconsin.<br />“This equals about four-thousandths of 1 percent (0.004 percent) of content in News Feed, or approximately one out of 23,000 pieces of content.”<br />The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election.<br />Others have asserted in the past that Russia did not appear to focus its social media efforts on swing states.
