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Taking money from a foreign entity to run political ads is against the law.
by Larrikin 9y ago
Taking 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