Kremlin: Russia did not use Facebook adverts to sway U.S. election
Source: Reuters
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 / 5:28 AM / UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia did not place adverts on Facebook Inc to try to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
U.S. lawmakers have urged the Federal Election Commission to require transparency for social media advertising after Russian entities purchased political adverts during and after the 2016 election.
We do not know ... how to place an advert on Facebook. We have never done this, and the Russian side has never been involved in it, Peskov told a conference call with reporters.
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Good of them to clear this up.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)"Cookie-jar? Me? I don't even know how cookie-jars work!"
Sneederbunk
(14,299 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)silly stuff about Russia.
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"Russia is our Pal!"
ffr
(22,671 posts)Really good and giving rubes what they want, in the way they want it though.
bucolic_frolic
(43,276 posts)'agent without portfolio'
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)Too bad for you GOP: you should have given them some lessonslying is about all your good for.
Girard442
(6,084 posts)Next thing you know, Putin will be denying putting flaming bags of dog poop on people's doorsteps on Halloween.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Of Saddam Hussein's Information Minister, "Baghdad Bob"?
lark
(23,155 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)feigning shocked surprise upon hearing that Comey had been fired.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)"It isn't officially a real story until the Kremlin denies it."
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)poli-junkie
(1,006 posts)...but they can't place an advert on Facebook??????
keithbvadu2
(36,895 posts)Xolodno
(6,398 posts)The Kremlin invested in shell companies that bought the adds. See, a degree of separation! Putin didn't know what these shell companies would do!