Home Tech The Worst Industries Are Using Front Groups to Buy Influence on Facebook,...

The Worst Industries Are Using Front Groups to Buy Influence on Facebook, and It’s All Legal

144

A ProPublica story out today details how a dozen ad campaigns on Facebook appear to have concealed their true sponsors, with several being sponsored by front groups for oil interests. A front group tied to American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, itself a trade association for companies like ExxonMobil and BP, ran…

Read more…