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VICE News applied to buy #Facebook fake ads on behalf of all 100 sitting U.S. senators, including ads “Paid for by” by Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer

#Facebook's #PaidForBy feature is easily manipulated & allow anyone to lie about who is paying for a political ad, or to pose as someone else paying for the ad.

100% of entirely fake content in experiment was approved by FB.

How protected are the elections?

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9n3q/we-posed-as-100-senators-to-run-ads-on-facebook-facebook-approved-all-of-them