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Facebook Will Share Copies of Political Ads Purchased by Russian Sources With the US Congress (recode.net)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Facebook will turn over copies of political ads purchased by Russian sources to congressional lawmakers, who are investigating the country's potential interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Initially, Facebook had only released those ads -- 3,000 of them, valued at about $100,000 -- to Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who is spearheading the government's probe into Russia's actions. Facebook had withheld those details from House and Senate leaders, citing privacy concerns. But the move drew sharp rebukes from the likes of Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, who has charged in recent days that Facebook may not have done enough to scan its systems for potential Russian influence and to ensure that such foreign purchases -- otherwise illegal under U.S. law -- don't happen again. "After an extensive legal and policy review, today we are announcing that we will also share these ads with congressional investigators," wrote Colin Stretch, the company's general counsel. "We believe it is vitally important that government authorities have the information they need to deliver to the public a full assessment of what happened in the 2016 election."
You're right, that is the Israeli's job. The US' job is to figure out how much the Obama Administration was spying on its own citizens. More revelations this week that more US Citizens were being spied on, and yet, barely a peep out of the news organization.
If this was the FIRST time they were caught, I could understand the slow walking it, but it isn't the first, or second ....
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
They'll run Bernie instead, with his Free everything for everyone policies.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Sorry for the self-reply. It's clear that the Trump administration is shaping up to be literally a million times better then Obama, who won with the SJW vote. He will be the best president we've seen since Jackson and I expect that we'll see him on currency within the decade.
- Archangel_Michael -
Even closer than that, one of Hillary's closest advisors, John Pedesta, had intimate ties with Russia. If the issue is election manipulation, why is he not being looked at? And how did Hillary go from being so broke upon leaving the White House that they had to try stealing the china, to being a multimillionaire a few years later?
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
Yes, absolutely. Trump should have (and still should) release his taxes.
You are pushing a dishonest comparison, however. Hillary Clinton likely committed crimes, and behaved in a demonstrably corrupt manner.
Tax returns are not corrupt, illegal, or offensive... Nor is there any reason to release them, other than as a gesture of transparency. This isn't even in the same universe as the shit Hillary was exposed doing.