Facebook Reportedly Turns Over Election Ad Data To Special Counsel Mueller
Source: Huffington Post
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it had found that an operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of U.S. ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May.
Facebook, the dominant social media network, said 3,000 ads and 470 inauthentic accounts and pages spread polarizing views on topics including immigration, race and gay rights.
Another $50,000 was spent on 2,200 potentially politically related ads, likely by Russians, Facebook said.
U.S. election law bars foreign nationals and foreign entities from spending money to expressly advocate the election or defeat of a candidate. Non-U.S. citizens may generally advertise on issues. Other ads, such as those that mention a candidate but do not call for the candidates election or defeat, fall into what lawyers have called a legal gray area.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-ad-data-mueller_us_59b0b71fe4b0dfaafcf55562
FailureToCommunicate
(14,026 posts)it will take some lawyering up. Though I 'spect Marky Z has plenty of $$$ for that neccessity.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and their russian cronies in the darkside warlike & treasonous campaign to undermine American democracy.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)what a cesspool of Russian Trumpbots.
They could fix this, if they wanted too.
They could terminate Trump's account,
but they won't.
Botany
(70,613 posts)It now seems like they were a knowing and paid partner in an
act of treason against the United States of America.
bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)Hopefully the contents will include the term "Crooked Hillary!"
Bruce Fallsteen
(32 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)They fessed up when they knew their goose was cooked.