The Secretive Organization Quietly Spending Millions on Facebook Political Ads


Over just two weeks in September, a limited-liability company calling itself News for Democracy spent almost $400,000 on more than 16 million impressions for a network of 14 Facebook pages that hadn’t existed until August. This represented the second-largest political ad buy on Facebook for the period … according to an analysis by a team at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, led by Damon McCoy.

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