Russia Linked Ads

Twitter will label election related ads after US threat over non-disclosure of political spending

US Senator Amy Klobuchar said in a statement that Twitter’s announcement was “no substitute for updating our laws.” A Democrat, she is co-sponsoring legislation that would make disclosures mandatory.

Facebook to make ad scrutiny more stringent after facing flak for succumbing to hate speech propagators

Facebook is going to require ads that are targetted to people based on "politics, religion, ethnicity or social issues" to be manually reviewed.

Michigan and Wisconsin were the states being targetted the most, by Russia-linked Facebook ads

The ads targeted key demographic groups and used divisive messages including promoting anti-Muslim sentiment

Facebook to hire 1,000 people to add a human element to review advertisements on its platform

An internal Facebook review showed that Russia-linked fake accounts were used to buy ads aimed at exacerbating political clashes ahead of and following the 2016 US presidential election.