Facebook Faces Increasing Scrutiny Over Election-Related Russian Ads
Facebook is under increasing pressure to scrutinize its advertising content after it discovered that ads on the site had been placed by a Russian agency to influence the 2016 U.S. election.
Facebook is under increasing pressure to scrutinize its advertising content after it discovered that at least 3,000 ads on the site had been placed by a Russian agency to influence the 2016 presidential election. The revelations about the ads came after months of denial by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that Facebook played any role in influencing voters.
As has been widely reported, the pressure on on voters. He called that a "crazy idea" and said "voters make decisions based on their lived experience."
