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Not if laws weren't broken with the meddling. Buying ads and making fake news sites isn't necessarily illegal, and we shouldn't expect FB to police something t
by aorloff 9y ago
Not if laws weren't broken with the meddling. Buying ads and making fake news sites isn't necessarily illegal, and we shouldn't expect FB to police something that's not illegal.
- Larrikin 9y agoTaking money from a foreign entity to run political ads is against the law.
- nomel 9y agoCould we get a reference for this claim? Bluman v. Federal Election Commission [1], which was upheld by the Supreme Court, and prohibits “independent expenditures” [2] from non citizens local or abroad. I’m not a lawyer, but this doesn’t seem to apply to the seller of the ad, which would be Facebook. It seems silly to expect a billboard company, or Facebook, to run a background check and citizenship verification on every purchase. Regardless, I picture an easy way around would be to get a former Russian, now citizen, to do it, then poof, no illegality from the buyer, from my understanding. [1] http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/bluman-v-federal-election-commission/ http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/bluman-v-federal-... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_expenditure https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_expenditure