> Russians giving donations to organisations controlled by one of your politicians would not be a hostile act? > Both actions are legal under your election

> Russians giving donations to organisations controlled by one of your politicians would not be a hostile act? > Both actions are legal under your election laws though, correct? No, foreigners donating to political campaigns or issue-advocacy groups (PACs), or engaging in electioneering or electioneering communications is illegal. Hence why it's a big deal that Facebook was letting Russians engage in electioneering - if they had attempted to purchase this advertising at, say, a local TV or radio station they would have been denied, but Facebook let them do it. Even if they added sufficient shell companies and lied their way through, the act would still have been logged and disclosed as all electioneering communications are - which again, Facebook was not doing. Facebook may not fall neatly into the existing rules, though (I'm unclear) as those are mainly targeted at broadcast media. Thus they're trying to scramble to make a show of compliance to avoid actual regulation. But this is very clearly something that will happen again unless something is done. http://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/electioneering.shtml http://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/electioneering.sht...