Well ain’t this a swift kick in the Obamas. Facebook just admitted somebody bought a bunch of ads in the election, and it was likely…. the RUSSIANS.
Watch below:
AMID ONGOING CONCERN over the role of disinformation in the 2016 election, Facebook said Wednesday it found that more than 5,000 ads, costing more than $150,000, had been placed on its network between June 2015 and May 2017 from “inauthentic accounts” and Pages, likely from Russia.
The ads didn’t directly mention the election or the candidates, according to a blog post by Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos, but focused on “amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum—touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.” Facebook declined to discuss additional details about the ads.
Facebook says it had given the information to authorities investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. “We know we have to stay vigilant to keep ahead of people who try to misuse our platform,” Stamos wrote in the post. “We believe in protecting the integrity of civic discourse, and require advertisers on our platform to follow both our policies and all applicable laws.”
So is this a problem? And why did it take them so long to figure this out? If Trump wanted to prove that he didn’t get any help from the Rooskies, he could make sure there was a thorough investigation into these claims.
But there won’t be.