A Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the 2016 presidential election uncovered a systematic pattern where Russian firms purchased Facebook ads to sow division along racial and political lines in the U.S. The algorithms to place ads are expertly gamed and the ads/memes are produced with reliable results to foment political change and promote nationalist agendas in traditional democracies across Europe and the United States. The question of just how the influence operations were carried out is now coming to light under Congressional scrutiny and the tactics look startlingly familiar to cybercrime campaigns.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3277953/how-elections-are-hacked-via-social-media-profiling.html