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A US-Sanctioned Oligarch Ran Pro-Kremlin Ads on Facebook—Again
Meta earned over $200,000 from an ad campaign, seen by millions, that pushed pro-Kremlin talking points and undermined local elections in Moldova, according to new research.
Last February, when researchers at London-based nonprofit Reset found that Meta was allowing Ilan Shor, a Moldovan oligarch with links to the Kremlin, to run an ad campaign on Facebook, the company promised to stop him. “The way that I found the second campaign is simply I typed the name ‘Ilan Shor’ into Facebook’s ad archive,” a researcher at Reset, who did not want to be identified to protect their privacy, tells WIRED. “Facebook and Instagram have become the handmaidens of Vladimir Putin’s covert campaign to disrupt European democracy, perhaps nowhere more egregiously than in Moldova,” Ben Scott, director at Reset, tells WIRED.
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