Looks like some of these ads contained express advocacy ("vote for Stein") making them illegal under current law if foreign paidhttps://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/912849700847538176 …
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But in the future they can easily avoid that and Russian government might be able to *legally* pay for election adshttp://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/26/russian-facebook-ads-regulation-215647 …
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Facebook could be liable for offering "substantial assistance" to a foreign entity running election ads with express advocacy
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If it did so wilfully it could face criminal liability but so far no evidence of that.
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