https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16271336/fec-facebook-russia-political-ads-disclosure-ellen-weintraub

Ellen L. Weintraub, a member of the Federal Elections Commission, has submitted a vote on revamping disclaimer rules around political ads on the internet following Facebook’s admission yesterday that Russia bought $100,000 worth of ads on the social network to influence the US presidential election last year. Weintraub, who posted her letter to the FEC on Twitter, says the goal is to decide whether the “American people deserve to know who’s paying for the political info they see on the internet?”

“It is imperative that we updated the Federal Elections Commission’s regulations to ensure that the American people know who is paying for the internet political communications they see,” Weintraub writes. “Given the revelations of the past few days regarding the secret purchase of thousands of internet political ads by foreign actors during the 2016 presidential election, there can no longer reasonably be any doubt that we need to revise and modernize our internet disclaimer regulations.” The letter was sent to Chairman Steven T. Walthier, and Weintraub says she intends to include input from Facebook, Twitter, and Google, among other tech companies, once a new 30-day public comment period has taken place and a new hearing is scheduled.