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Facebook says estimated 10 million saw Russia-linked ads
WASHINGTON
(AP)
—
Facebook says ads that ran on the
company’s social media platform
and have been linked to a Russian
internet agency were seen by an
estimated 10 million people before
and after the 2016 election.
The company turned 3,000
ads over to three congressional
committees Monday as part of
their investigations into Russian
influence in the 2016 election. In
a new company blog post, Face-
book’s Elliot Schrage said the ads
appeared to focus on divisive social
and political messages, including
LGBT issues, immigration and
gun rights. In many cases, the ads
encouraged people to follow pages
on those issues.
Fewer than half of the ads —
which ran between 2015 and 2017
— were seen before the election,
“Even when we have taken all
steps to control abuse, there will be
political and social content that will
appear on our platform that people
will find objectionable, and that we
will find objectionable,” Schrage
writes.
Another Facebook official,
Joel Kaplan, the company’s vice
president of global policy, said in a
blog post Monday morning that the
company is planning to hire more
than 1,000 people to staff teams that
review advertisements globally.
Facebook will also update its poli-
cies to require better documentation
from advertisers who want to run
ads related to the U.S. election,
including a requirement that the
advertisers will have to confirm
the business or organization they
represent.
Kaplan said the company’s poli-
was spent on the ads.
Schrage, Facebook vice pres-
ident for policy and communica-
tions, said in the blog post that the
ads included “political messages
across the ideological spectrum.”
He said for 99 percent of the ads,
less than $1,000 was spent.
The company said some of
the ads were paid for in Russian
currency, but that isn’t always
a way of identifying suspicious
activity. Schrage defended the site’s
ability to target certain demographic
groups, but said “ads containing
certain types of targeting will now
require additional human review
and approval.”
The company is also making
clear that it takes the right to free
speech seriously and will never be
able to remove all objectionable
content.
with 56 percent of them seen after
the election. Some of the ads were
paid for in Russian currency.
Congressional
investigators
have recently focused on the spread
of false news stories and propa-
ganda on social media and have
pressured Facebook, along with
Twitter and Google, to release any
Russia-linked ads. Facebook’s ads
were turned over to the House and
Senate intelligence committees and
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The company already has given
similar material to Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation into
the Russian meddling.
Facebook said last month that
the ads appear to have come from
accounts associated with a Russian
entity called the Internet Research
Agency. The company said it found
450 accounts and about $100,000
cies already prohibit “shocking”
content, direct threats and the
promotion of the sale or use of
weapons, but said “going forward,
we are expanding these policies
to prevent ads that use even more
subtle expressions of violence.”
Twitter has said it found post-
ings linked to the same Facebook
accounts, and the House and Senate
intelligence panels have asked both
companies, along with Google,
to testify publicly in the coming
weeks. None of the companies has
yet said whether it will accept the
invitations.
It is unclear whether the Face-
book ads turned over to Congress
will eventually be released publicly.
Several lawmakers have said the
American public should see them.
California Rep. Adam Schiff
said he hopes to release the ads.
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Attempted murder
charges filed in
Canada car,
knife attack
EDMONTON, Alberta
(AP) — Prosecutors on
Monday filed charges
including attempted murder
against a man suspected
of ramming his car into a
policeman, stabbing him and
then injuring four people
while leading officers on a
high-speed chase.
Abdulahi Hasan
Sharif faces five counts
of attempted murder, five
counts of dangerous driving
and one weapons charge in
connection with the incident
late Saturday in the western
city of Edmonton.
The 30-year-old suspect
is a Somali refugee who
was previously investigated
for allegedly espousing
extremism. An Islamic State
group flag was found in
the car, and Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau called it a
terror attack.
Police have said terrorism
charges are expected.
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SAO PAULO (AP) —
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called for international
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scarred a disputed secession
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democratic rule was restored
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northeastern region left more
than 890 civilians and 430
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