Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that the social network has discovered that it sold ads during the U.S. presidential campaign to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings.
Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said.
By Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman
Tags: 2016 Presidential Election, Cyber Security, Facebook, Google, Hillary Clinton, Robert Mueller, Russian Hacking, Social Media, TwitterCategorised in: Latest News
