New ‘Dark Ads’ pro-Brexit Facebook campaign may have reached over 10M people, say researchers
New ‘Dark Ads’ pro-Brexit Facebook campaign may have reached over 10M people, say researchers A major new campaign of disinformation around Brexit, designed to stir up U.K. ‘Leave’ voters, and distributed via Facebook, may have reached over 10 million people in the U.K., according to new research. The source of the campaign is so far unknown, and will be embarrassing to Facebook, which only this week claimed it was clamping down on “dark” political advertising on its platform. Researchers for the U.K.-based digital agency 89up allege that Mainstream Network —…
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