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Orrex

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2. Define "influence the election"

Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 06:53 PM

Sep 2017

I'm not sure that Facebook is required to circulate only legitimate, corroborated news stories, nor am I sure that the company is barred from accepting (or even seeking) ad revenue from foreign entities.

What law might he have broken, exactly?

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Did Facebook's Zuckerberg violate any laws by [View all] BigmanPigman Sep 2017 OP

Damned good question... Raster Sep 2017 #1

Define "influence the election" Orrex Sep 2017 #2

I don't know about the law so that is why I asked. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #3

Fair enough (nt) Orrex Sep 2017 #5

It is illegal, I am pretty sure, for anybody here to accept or use foreign money Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #6

No it is illegal for candidates to do that. Not "anybody". Voltaire2 Sep 2017 #10

That's my sense as well. Orrex Sep 2017 #16

Treason? Collusion? Not Ruth Sep 2017 #4

neither? Voltaire2 Sep 2017 #9

Washington Post article on the issue... PoliticAverse Sep 2017 #7

I rather doubt it. Voltaire2 Sep 2017 #8

FEC regulations require ads to say who paid for them. And there is no online exemption. n/t pnwmom Sep 2017 #12

Facebook asked in 2012 and got no response as far as I can tell. Voltaire2 Sep 2017 #13

He might have. I don't remember where I read this, but some non-profit is arguing pnwmom Sep 2017 #11

as I posted above, they got no response at all from the FEC. Voltaire2 Sep 2017 #14

DU runs ads. does DU vet preview research and source all the ads here? nt msongs Sep 2017 #15