The new findings revealed how far these bad actors were going to cover their tracks.įacebook stock tanked after the Cambridge Analytica news, but rose steadily from there.
July 2018: Facebook finds more fake accounts likely linked to Russiansįacebook shut down 32 accounts and pages that had some ties to the initial batch of IRA accounts, though the company couldn't link them to Russia definitively. (Usmanov relinquished control of the company in October, according to reports.) Among the companies that received an extension: Russian internet giant, whose main investor had been Alisher Usmanov, a businessman with ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin. Buried deep in more than 700 pages of responses, Facebook noted that it gave dozens of companies extended access to users' friends data, even after it publicly cut off that access in 2015.
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July 2018: Facebook tells Congress it had special data arrangements with dozens of companies, including a Russian internet giantįacebook followed up on Zuckerberg's trip to Washington with a series of written responses to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Then The New York Times broke the news that the company also struck deals with device manufacturers like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Blackberry, through which it shared Facebook users' personal data. June 2018: Facebook's data deals with device manufacturers emergeĪfter the Cambridge Analytica debacle, the nation was on edge about all the information Facebook was giving away. And WIRED showed how opaque even this stab at transparency still is, by telling the story of an obscure concealed-carry company that became one of 2018's top 10 political advertisers on Facebook. Reporters at Vice demonstrated how vulnerable Facebook's vetting process for political advertisers was to abuse, creating ads with disclaimers that said the ads were paid for by various US senators. Bush's Beans accidentally ended up in there because the brand includes the name of a political dynasty. Advertisers posting gay-themed ads, including one for a gay comedy show, were forced to register as political advertisers because their ads pertained to LGBT issues. News organizations protested the inclusion of political articles in the archive. But almost as soon as it launched, problems arose.
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Facebook launched its political advertising archive to bring some transparency to the still unregulated world of digital political ads.
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