The following article by Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosaline S. Helderman was posted on the Washington Post website September 6, 2017:
Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the U.S. presidential election to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings.
Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said. Continue reading “Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election”