Thousands of Facebook Ads Tied to Bogus Russian Accounts
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English - September 11, 2017 08:10 - 5 minutes - ★★★★ - 16 ratingsBusiness News News spokenlayer Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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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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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