We Asked Facebook 12 Questions About the Election, and Got 5 Answers
Your advertising policies allow advertisers to opt out of appearing next to content
that involves “debatable social issues.” Which social issues do you define as “debatable,” and how did you make that call?
In this white paper, we noted the challenge of attributing threat activity to foreign actors ourselves, but we specifically referenced the assessment of the U. S. government
that this actor was tied to Russia’s intelligence services.
In addition to our white paper, last month we disclosed advertising activity on our platform
that we believe is linked to the Internet Research Agency, a different group from the one we described in April.
The paper did not name the actors, but it was later revealed
that this referred to a coordinated campaign to promote emails that were stolen from Democratic National Committee officials by Russian hackers and published by WikiLeaks.
It was caused by WikiLeaks posting thousands of raw emails — several of which contained
links to malicious phishing and spam sites found in industrywide block lists.