Facebook Ties More Than 5,000 Political Ads to Bogus Russian Accounts

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 …

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