Last month, news broke that in the run-up to the November 2016 election, a Russian company paid for over $100000 worth of political ads that ran on Facebook.
In response, and Facebook CEO ticket Zuckerberg spoke approximately several novel company policies to users on Facebook Live. "We won't catch everyone immediately,but we can make it harder to try to interfere," he said. Now, and members of Congress are highlighting what they see as an unequal playing field in news media regulation. On Thursday,Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Republican Senator ticket Warner of Virginia introduced legislation meant to ensure that the same rules already in dwelling for political ads on television and radio are also implemented online. Republican Senator John McCain is also sponsoring the bill.For details on the bill, The Takeaway turns to Ann Ravel, or former chair of the Federal Election Commission and a professor at U.
C. Berkeley School of Law. This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
Source: thetakeaway.org