'Russian Ads on Facebook' (House Intelligence Committee exhibit)
A page of the House Intelligence Committee's 2018 report reproducing Facebook pages that the Internet Research Agency ran while posing as American communities: 'Blacktivist,' 'Woke Blacks,' 'Being Patriotic,' 'LGBT United' and 'South United.' The same operation built rival identities on opposite sides of U.S. politics and presented each one as homegrown.
- Date
- 2016
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Internet Research Agency (St Petersburg), via fake U.S. community pages
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Russia
- Medium
- Digital posts
- Issuer type
- Covert network
- Regime
- Putin Government
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Deceive or deny
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Race and ethnicity, Media and information
- Event
- 2016 US Election
- Techniques
- Astroturfing
- Source
- Impersonated Source falsified: fake personas, outlets or documents
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Report on Russian Active Measures (2018), p. 34.
Text on the object
TOP SECRET//[REDACTED]//NOFORN UNCLASSIFIED RUSSIAN ADS ON FACEBOOK Blacktivist Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud BLACKTIVIST [ad image text] Blacktivist — Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) — [illegible] people like this — Like Page Woke Blacks Staying Woke &building up our communities,uplifting our people. Join us! Woke Blacks [ad image text] Woke Blacks — Community — [illegible] people like this — Like Page [illegible page name] [illegible tagline] [photograph of a person, no legible caption text] [illegible] — 23 Like, Comment, Send — Interested LGBT United We stand for all lesbian members of LGBT community across the nation. [logo image, no legible text] LGBT United — Community — 141,[illegible] people like this — Like Page [illegible page name] United We Stand! Welcome every patriot we can reach. Flag and repost [photograph of a bald eagle and flags, no legible caption text] [illegible page name] — Community — 210,[illegible] people like this — Like Page South United [illegible tagline] SOUTH UNITED [ad image text, over a flag graphic] South United — [illegible] — 135,6[illegible] people like this — Like Page Source: Facebook UNCLASSIFIED TOP SECRET//[REDACTED]//NOFORN 34 PROPERTY OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Scan of a printed report reproducing low-resolution Facebook screenshots; much small body text (taglines, like-counts, two of six page names) is below this file's resolution and marked illegible rather than guessed. Classification banners are redacted in the original document, not by FRAME. The caption names five pages for six thumbnails; FRAME could not match 'Being Patriotic' to a specific on-image label, so both unread names are left illegible rather than assigned from the caption.
