Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society Jun 2021 RSS

Rubles and Rhetoric: Corporate Kairos and Social Media’s Crisis of Common Sense

Abstract

In this article, we investigate the platform politics and technological dynamics at play on Facebook that allowed Russian politically motivated advertisements to be purchased with Rubles during the 2016 election season. These ads were purchased using a currency that clearly indicated an attempt by a foreign power to influence a US election, something prohibited by the FEC (Federal Election Commission, “Foreign Nationals”). In the Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing, Senator Al Franken asked Facebook VP Colin Stretch, “American political ads and Russian money: rubles. How could you not connect those two dots?”

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Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
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2021-06-22
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social media argument

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