We Asked Facebook 12 Questions About the Election, and Got 5 Answers<br />Your advertising policies allow advertisers to opt out of appearing next to content<br />that involves “debatable social issues.” Which social issues do you define as “debatable,” and how did you make that call?<br />In this white paper, we noted the challenge of attributing threat activity to foreign actors ourselves, but we specifically referenced the assessment of the U. S. government<br />that this actor was tied to Russia’s intelligence services.<br />In addition to our white paper, last month we disclosed advertising activity on our platform<br />that we believe is linked to the Internet Research Agency, a different group from the one we described in April.<br />The paper did not name the actors, but it was later revealed<br />that this referred to a coordinated campaign to promote emails that were stolen from Democratic National Committee officials by Russian hackers and published by WikiLeaks.<br />It was caused by WikiLeaks posting thousands of raw emails — several of which contained<br />links to malicious phishing and spam sites found in industrywide block lists.
