Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
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Re: Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
#2Facebook's blog post on the matter: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/09/information-operations-...
Re: Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
#3Didn't Hillary take some 25 million dollars from the Saudis? I thought this witch hunt was put to rest months ago.
Re: Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
#4Didn't Hillary take some 25 million dollars from the Saudis? I thought this witch hunt was put to rest months ago.
Nope. You're probably thinking of the $25m the Saudis gave to the Clinton Foundation, a non-profit humanitarian organization.
Re: Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
#5Didn't Hillary take some 25 million dollars from the Saudis? I thought this witch hunt was put to rest months ago.
Nope. You're probably thinking of the $25m the Saudis gave to the Clinton Foundation, a non-profit humanitarian organization.
...that spent significantly more money on luxury travel costs than it did on charitable grants. [1]
[1] http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2014/311/580/2014-3115...
Re: Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
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#7Out of curiosity, are there any laws on the books right now which are meant to prevent this sort of thing?
For example, let's assume a foreign government decided to purchase ads either backing or attacking a US political candidate, and they were completely overt about it. (No hiding behind shell companies or transferring funds anonymously; completely out in the open.) Are there any laws or systems currently in place which would stop them from doing that?
Re: Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
#8Conservative bots down vote this and anything thought to be liberally biased on any social media site. I made one on Reddit.
Re: Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope. You're probably thinking of the $25m the Saudis gave to the Clinton Foundation, a non-profit humanitarian organization.
How is that not the same thing?
Well, it's confusing because both include the word "Clinton," but one is a human being who, amongst other things, ran for President in 2016. The other is a non-profit humanitarian organization. Two different things.
Re: Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
#10Out of curiosity, are there any laws on the books right now which are meant to prevent this sort of thing? For example, let's assume a foreign government decided to purchase ads either backing or attacking a US political candidate, and they were completely overt about it. (No hiding behind shell companies or transferring funds anonymously; completely out in the open.) Are there any laws or systems currently in place…
And, as a related question - should there be? What about a foreign corporation? A foreign corporation with a domestic presence? A domestic corporation? None of these groups are beholden to the public interest.