双语阅读英语外刊精讲：facebook反对特朗普？

2019-04-03 08:56:00来源：酷学英语

　　Facebook recently admitted that it had sold $100,000 worth of political ads to hundreds of fake accounts with connections to a notorious Russian “troll farm” in St. Petersburg between June 2015 and May 2017. These ads generally praised Trump while deriding his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton. It’s illegal for foreign interests to purchase political ads in the U.S.

　　Facebook has already turned over more than 3,000 “secretly sponsored” ads to Mueller. But the social media giant has refused to release them publicly — citing internal policies to protect the privacy of users.

　　“When we recently uncovered this activity, we provided that information to the special counsel. We also briefed Congress — and this morning I directed our team to provide the ads we’ve found to Congress as well,” Zuckerberg said.

　　 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at his company’s annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif., on April 18. (Photo: Noah Berger/AP)

　　“As a general rule, we are limited in what we can discuss publicly about law enforcement investigations, so we may not always be able to share our findings publicly. But we support Congress in deciding how to best use this information to inform the public, and we expect the government to publish its findings when their investigation is complete.”

　　Back in January 2016, however, Trump had a much warmer view of the platform, tweeting about how he completely dominated Facebook conversations.

　　Facebook did not respond to a request for comment from Yahoo News.

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