Thousands of Facebook Ads Tied to Bogus Russian Accounts
Thousands of Facebook Ads Tied to Bogus Russian Accounts
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 11, 20174m 25s
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Show Notes
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.
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