{"id":8384,"date":"2018-05-21T18:36:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2019-01-09T20:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T20:50:43","slug":"8384","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/21\/8384\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Tribune interviews Prof. Andrew Aoki about Russian fake Facebook campaign targeting Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8385\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-2.14.46-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8385 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-2.14.46-PM-300x289.png\" alt=\"Post promoting a rally was among the sponsored ads on Facebook, targeted to people within 50 miles of Minnesota.\" width=\"261\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-2.14.46-PM-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-16-at-2.14.46-PM.png 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Post promoting a rally was among the sponsored ads on Facebook, targeted to people within 50 miles of MN.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Star Tribune<\/em> reported about thousands of recently disclosed fake Facebook ads and posts and interviewed Augsburg political science professor Andrew Aoki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Many of these ads and posts released by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee referenced several Minnesota events, including the police shooting cases of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">\u201cThere\u2019s obviously some significant division in this country, and so my guess is that they looked for where there are real divisions and then tried to make them deeper,\u201d Aoki told the <em>Star Tribune<\/em>. \u201cBecause it\u2019s a lot easier to stoke the fires that are already burning than to start new ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Read full story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-s-clark-castile-cases-were-used-in-russian-made-facebook-posts\/482461361\/#1\"><em>Star Tribune<\/em> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Tribune reported about thousands of recently disclosed fake Facebook ads and posts and interviewed Augsburg political science professor Andrew Aoki. Many of these ads and posts released by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee referenced several Minnesota events, including the police shooting cases of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile. \u201cThere\u2019s obviously some significant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8384"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}