Facebook’s vice president of ads apologized for his claim that the goal of Russian ads on the social media platform was not to sway the 2016 presidential election.
“I wanted to apologize for having tweeted my own view about Russian interference without having it reviewed by anyone internally. The tweets were my own personal view and not Facebook’s. I conveyed my view poorly,” Rob Goldman said on Monday, according to Wired.
“The Special Counsel has far more information about what happened [than] I do—so seeming to contradict his statements was a serious mistake on my part,” he continued.
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Goldman tweeted in response to special counsel Robert Mueller’s announced indictments on Friday, saying that most of Russian ad spending happened after the election and criticized the news media’s coverage of the election meddling.
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The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election. https://t.co/2dL8Kh0hof
— Rob Goldman (@robjective) February 17, 2018
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President Trump on Saturday retweeted Goldman, and ripped the news media.
The Fake News Media never fails. Hard to ignore this fact from the Vice President of Facebook Ads, Rob Goldman! https://t.co/XGC7ynZwYJ
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2018
“I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal.”
Rob Goldman
Vice President of Facebook Ads https://t.co/A5ft7cGJkE— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2018
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Facebook exec apologizes for claiming Russian ads weren't trying to sway 2016 election: report https://t.co/AiBuypt0hg pic.twitter.com/NcaXogaNZX
— The Hill (@thehill) February 20, 2018
Hey @robjective how about you give my team all the ads — 2014 up until present day — and we'll do a proper sentiment and narrative analysis of them, modeled against prior Russian info ops and the US content they sought to emulate? https://t.co/z4txbaD7p9
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) February 18, 2018
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