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NEW YORK, September 24. /TASS/. The American company Facebook, in spite of recent statements, 10 months ago believed the nonsense of the assumptions about Russian efforts using this social network to influence the outcome of last year’s elections in the United States. This detail was disclosed on Sunday in the broadcast of CNN, the co-chair of the ad hoc Committee on intelligence of the Senate mark Warner (Democrat from Virginia).
He expressed satisfaction that the operator of the social network has changed its point of view on this issue. “I’m glad that Facebook has finally stepped forward. Ten months ago I started to raise this issue. And ten months ago, Facebook responded that all this madness, they say, there is no intervention of Russia”, — said the Senator, expressing regret that the leadership of the social network waited so long.
According to Warner, he personally and his colleagues have not yet received the report from the outside paid ads in Facebook. “In the coming weeks we’ll find out how thoroughly was the company [in the report]. We have not received any information from them, we will reveal these details next week. We want to find a way to make part of these announcements and information the subject of publicity,” — said the Senator, explaining that it is difficult to do without violating the rights of users.
September 6, Alex Stamos, in charge of security at Facebook, made a statement that during the presidential elections in the United States some organization in Russia has spent $100 million to spread in the social network advertising messages of a political nature by creating false accounts and pages. According to Stamos, according to a company analysis for the period June 2015 to may 2017, these accounts were connected to each other, and they probably ruled from Russia. He assured that all such accounts, and page is already locked.
This week Facebook announced the decision to provide information on this account in full Congress. The US President Donald trump called another hoax information about paid from Russia ads in Facebook with the aim of influencing American elections in 2016.
Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said Friday that the Kremlin has no relation to the placement of political advertising on the social network and does not know who is behind these orders.