Russian Trolls Spent $100,000 on Facebook Ads Around the Election

Facebook announced today that it sold $100,000 worth of ads to a sketchy network of fake Russian accounts between June 2015 to May 2017, a period spanning the 2016 election cycle. The ads often mentioned particular political issues, like LGBT rights or gun control, but rarely mentioned a specific political candidate…

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Source: Gizmodo – Russian Trolls Spent 0,000 on Facebook Ads Around the Election