«The question is, should
divisive political ads run?
Its creators hope that the bill can make its way through Congress before primary season begins, fending off or at least complicating further attempts by the Russian government to seed
divisive political ads online.
NPR's Lulu Garcia - Navarro talks with Wired reporter Issie Lapowsky about what's in
the divisive political ads.
At this point, it's pretty much common knowledge that Russian operatives used Facebook to influence the 2016 presidential election by creating fake news accounts that sold
divisive political ads and...
His stock response to the committee's concerns about
divisive political ads was that Facebook believes «radical transparency» is the fix — also dropping one tidbit of extra news on that front in his written testimony by saying Facebook will roll out an authentication process for political advertisers in the UK in time for the local elections in May 2019.
Two months ago, the company disclosed that it had discovered $ 100,000 worth of
divisive political ads placed by «inauthentic» Russian accounts.
Not exact matches
«Most of the paid
ads the Internet Research Agency ran on Facebook prior to the 2016 election didn't mention Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump — but they did mention
divisive political issues like guns, LGBT rights, immigration, and racial issues,» said Sen. Mark Warner, D - Va., who along with Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D - Minn., and John McCain, R - Ariz., have sponsored the bill.
«Rather,» Stamos said, «the
ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying
divisive social and
political messages across the ideological spectrum — touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.»
Most of the Russian
ads focused on «
divisive political issues like guns, L.G.B.T. rights, immigration and racial issues,» Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, said in a statement.
Facebook said on Wednesday it had found that an influence operation likely based in Russia spent $ 100,000 on
ads promoting
divisive social and
political messages in a two - year - period through May.
The
ads focused on «amplifying
divisive social and
political messages across the ideological spectrum» and used techniques Facebook previously identified as those used by disinformation campaigns, Stamos said.
Facebook's chief security officer, Alex Stamos, described the
ads as «amplifying
divisive social and
political messages across the ideological spectrum» and said that they covered a variety of
political issues, including LGBT rights and gun control.
«Most of the paid
ads the Internet Research Agency ran on Facebook prior to the 2016 election didn't mention Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump — but they did mention
divisive political issues like guns, LGBT rights, immigration, and racial issues,» Warner said in a statement.
The linchpin quote of the interview was when Sandberg said «The question is should
divisive,
political, or issue
ads run... our answer is yes, because when you cut off speech for one person, then you cut off speech for all people.»
A small portion of those
ads sought to polarize and amplify «
divisive social and
political messages across the ideological spectrum,» according to a blog post by Facebook's chief security officer Alex Stamos.
It's even more so now after Wednesday's news that Facebook sold
ads during the campaign to a Russian «troll farm,» targeting American voters with «
divisive social and
political messages» that fit right in with Donald Trump's campaign strategy.