Facebook publishes report on political advertising in the network

San Francisco / Menlo Park (APA / AFP) – Facebook has published a first report on political advertising published on the social network. In the advertising archive report presented Tuesday, it is possible to see who has published advertisements for how much money in the United States.

With this report, Facebook responds to allegations of manipulation of voters on the social network, especially during the 2016 US presidential election. Facebook has recently set up a kind of operations center at its headquarters in order to fight misinformation and manipulation of the network.

According to the report presented Tuesday, about 256 million dollars (about 223 million euros) have been spent since last May in nearly 1.7 million political advertisements. At the peak of spending was $ 5.4 million the Beto for Texas organization, which backs Democrat Beto O. Rourke against Republican Ted Cruz in the race for the Senate seat for Texas.

The Great America Trump Make America Committee ranks second with $ 3.1 million in advertising spend on Facebook. The report must be updated weekly.

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