If a Sketchy Russian Ad Network Promotes a Facebook Event, Will Anyone Show Up Last week, news broke a network of fake Russian trolls bought at least 1. Andrew Were all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, thats all. In this episode of DigitalRev TV How to, we take a look at a question left on our Facebook page how do you do smoke photography. Kai shows us how. Facebook between June 2. May 2. 01. 7. The ads were sometimes politically themed and potentially reached tens of millions of Americans, raising questions about possible links to increasingly well evidenced allegations of Russian interference in the 2. Donald Trumps campaign, and could have ultimately been linked to some kind of marketing operation instead. Heres something a little more tangible, per the Daily Beast. Apparently, a known Russian front company managed to use Facebooks event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests in the U. S., including an August 2. Muslim rally in Idaho, which were promoted using ads paid for by the same network of fake accounts. According to the Beast, Facebook confirmed the events were taken down in the same purge of the 1. The Idaho rally originally appeared as sponsored by Secured. Official government website for the City of Reno, Nevada. Find jobs, news, special events, meetings and watch videos. Fast and Furious 8 Full Movie, 2017, Stream, Online, Download, Free, Show Cast, Reviews, More. The Fast and furious Watch are available on 14 April 2017. Borders, the same front allegedly responsible for an eclipse themed meme of Donald Trump the president actually tweeted. Secure. Borders is linked to the Internet Research Agency, a strange St. Petersburg venture with ties to both Vladimir Putin and private interests. But if this was an attempt to actually translate influence into a change in the behavior of US voters, the event does not seem to have been very successful. One cached Facebook event which appears to be the same one flagged by the Beast had just 4. Watch The First Grader Online. Without more details, a lot of this is inherently speculativeone could interpret this as a test for some kind of government op, or perhaps an attempt by the troll farm to pretend it had a real life presence while it was hawking merchandise or linking slack jawed US yokels to profit generating malware. But whatever was going on with this specific event, it seems to have been a very curious use of someones dollars, or rubles, or whatever.