- Bloomberg, Thursday, October 5, 2017 12:54 AM
For years, Facebook fought government efforts to open up about its platform’s potential impact on elections,
Bloomberg reports. “Since 2011, Facebook has asked the Federal
Election Commission for blanket exemptions from political advertising disclosure rules,” it writes. Of course, greater transparency “could have helped it avoid the current crisis over
Russian ad spending ahead of the 2016 U.S. election,” it notes.
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