According to ASLR's link:
https://www.recode.net/2017/10/6/16419388/facebook-google-twitter-russia-ads-2016-election-president-donald-trumpThe 10 Million figure includes only American users.
The ads were on
both sides of "contentious" issues. The intent was to "further public debate, and to foment discord".
It's
suggested that they "explicitly targeted swing states".
Twitter - found 200 accounts that matched users that facebook had previously "flagged".
Twitter and facebook are still accepting revenue from RT, flagged by intelligence agencies as "
a Kremlin propaganda arm".
"Sources say" Google received $4,700 from Kremlin backed sources & an additional $53,000 from other Russian sources. ---
Pretty small potatoes.
Oath, formerly Yahoo, and Reddit refused to discuss their sales or user accounts.
Snap found
no Russian-bought ads.
Microsoft has been investigating Bling since October.
A Republican climate change skeptic now wants to know if Russia is behind "online opposition to fossil fuels" - and this one has a whole article devoted to it!Senator Warner wants the big companies to save all their ads and have them "available for public inspection. - - -
Wow! Buy an ad for a day & have it available to the public permanently.The FEC hasn't ruled on a 2011 petition from facebook to exempt them from political ad rulings, Google had asked for a similar exemption earlier.
Both houses plan to "grill" the companies on Nov. 1.
Thanks again ASLRAre we about to enter into an era where I, as a Canadian, won't be able to argue American politics online?I don't use facebook or Twitter, but I have been vocal about many divisive subjects, whether an election was eminent or not.If I wanted to run an ad against the tariffs recently placed on Canadian airplanes, should I consider placing it in my wife's, an American Citizen's name?I can't imagine that the vaunted American Democratic System is so fragile that it can be brought down so easily for so little. Hope the Canadian System is more robust Terry