Al Franken doesn’t get how Facebook can’t tell the difference between real ads and fake Russian ones. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Join TYT: https://goo.gl/v8E64M
“WASHINGTON — Facebook and Google declined under repeated congressional questioning Tuesday to commit to stop taking Russian rubles and other foreign currencies as payment for American political advertisements, despite federal election law prohibiting payments from foreign nationals.
Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, a Democrat, hammered the companies on the question of accepting American political ads paid for with foreign currencies during a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing on Russian disinformation campaigns and the 2016 election. It was the first of three congressional hearings to be held over two days in which representatives from Google, Facebook and Twitter will appear for questioning.
“How did Facebook, which prides itself on being able to process billions of data points and instantly transform them into personal connections for its users, somehow not make the connection that electoral ads paid for in rubles were coming from Russia?” asked Franken. “Those are two data points — American political ads and Russian money, rubles. How could you not connect those two dots?”
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