Friday, November 16, 2018

Bombshell Facebook report raises new campaign finance questions

At a Senate Judiciary markup on Thursday morning, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said she will send a letter to Facebook and the Justice Department regarding concerns raised yesterday that the company might be violating campaign finance rules. Her criticism follows an explosive report from The New York Times yesterday that documents how Facebook’s leaders handled the fallout of the 2016 election.

At the markup, Klobuchar said that she was concerned that Facebook reportedly hired an opposition research firm in the aftermath of the 2016 election “to go after its critics.” The Times story named a Republican firm called the Definers Corporation, which was reportedly hired to target the company’s critics and competitors by tying protestors to the...

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