Facebook ran $100k of deliberately divisive Russian ads ahead of 2016 US election
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/07/facebook_russian_political_ads/
Facebook has 'fessed up to taking “approximately $100,000 in ad spending” from 470 fake accounts connected to Russia and which published spots “amplifying divisive social and political messages”.
The your-life-rendered-as-ads company says it found the ad spend as it continued to probe whether it had been used as part of alleged Russian interference in the United States electoral process.
Facebook ran $100k of deliberately divisive Russian ads ahead of 2016 US election
Sep 7, 2017, 7:15am UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/07/facebook_russian_political_ads/
>Facebook has 'fessed up to taking “approximately $100,000 in ad spending” from 470 fake accounts connected to Russia and which published spots “amplifying divisive social and political messages”.
>The your-life-rendered-as-ads company says it found the ad spend as it continued to probe whether it had been used as part of alleged Russian interference in the United States electoral process.