Facebook sold more than $100,000 in political ads to a Russian company during the 2016 election
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/06/facebook-russia-ads-election/
Following its April post-mortem on its platform’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is out with some juicy new details. Most noteworthy given the public’s intense interest in all things Russian is the fact that potential pro-Kremlin entities apparently purchased as much as $150,000 in political ads on the platform between 2015 and 2017.
As Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos explained in a blog post: