But the scale of the operations focused on African Americans has never been laid out so vividly. “Ads to African Americans, Native Americans, Latin Americans, and youth were the cheapest, while ads to conservatives, Muslim Americans, and LGBT users were the most expensive. It encouraged African Americans to participate in real-life rallies against police treatment of minorities. The Russians then began buying Google ads targeting African Americans with links to the “Black Matter US” website. Using many of the same themes they’d used with African Americans, they highlighted stories about deportations, discrimination and the treatment of migrants.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2018 14:57 UTC