Under its new rules, Facebook reveals some details of the political ads about the SCOTUS nomination, but the money behind some groups buying ads remains opaque
Kevin Roose / New York Times : Tweets: @brendan_fischer , @dabeard , @profgalloway , @kevinroose , @nytimes , @nytimesbusiness , and @facebook See also Mediagazer Tweets: Brendan Fischer / @brendan_fischer : We can finally see the ads that groups like Judicial Crisis Network are running on Facebook. But we still don't know where the money is coming from. http://www.nytimes.com/... David Beard / @dabeard : Judicial Crisis Network, which is spending millions on TV ads as well as six figures on Facebook ads to get a #Trump crony on the Supreme Court, is the dark money group that helped stop Obama's pick & approve Gorsuch. It also hired Scott Pruitt's wife. http://www.nytimes.com/... Scott Galloway / @profgalloway : Facebook's ads archive reveals how dark money is already flowing into the SCOTUS nomination fight - via @kevinroose http://www.nytimes.com/... Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : FB's archive shows that Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative legal group, has already spent as much as $140,000 promoting Trump's nominee (whoever it is) to voters in states like ND, WV, and IN. http://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : The new Facebook ad archive provides a look into how dark money is trying to influence Trump's Supreme Court nomination http://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimesbusiness : A Facebook spokeswomen said that the company did not require political groups to identify their donors, and that it believed the Federal Election Commission, which monitors political spending, was better positioned to investigate these groups http://www.nytimes.com/... @facebook : We know there's still room to improve the process, but this is why increased transparency is so important. https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer