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| Russia never placed ads on Facebook to interfere in US election – Kremlin | Russia never placed ads on Facebook to interfere in US election – Kremlin |
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| Moscow has nothing to do with political advertisements on Facebook that were allegedly aimed at influencing the 2016 US presidential election, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. | Moscow has nothing to do with political advertisements on Facebook that were allegedly aimed at influencing the 2016 US presidential election, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. |
| “We don't know who placed the advertisements on Facebook or how, and have never done it. The Russian side has never been part of it,” Peskov told journalists on Friday. | “We don't know who placed the advertisements on Facebook or how, and have never done it. The Russian side has never been part of it,” Peskov told journalists on Friday. |
| READ MORE: Trump: Russia hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook | |
| Earlier, Facebook reported that a Russian agency had purchased some ads on the social network during the 2016 presidential campaign. | Earlier, Facebook reported that a Russian agency had purchased some ads on the social network during the 2016 presidential campaign. |
| Facebook co-founder and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday that the company is “actively working with the US government on its ongoing investigations into Russian interference.” | Facebook co-founder and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday that the company is “actively working with the US government on its ongoing investigations into Russian interference.” |
| READ MORE: Facebook agrees to release information about Russian-purchased ads to Congress | READ MORE: Facebook agrees to release information about Russian-purchased ads to Congress |
| The company also said that it “will help government authorities complete the vitally important work of assessing what happened in the 2016 election.” | |
| “We are looking into foreign actors, including additional Russian groups and other former Soviet states, as well as organizations like the campaigns, to further our understanding of how they used our tools,” Zuckerberg said. | “We are looking into foreign actors, including additional Russian groups and other former Soviet states, as well as organizations like the campaigns, to further our understanding of how they used our tools,” Zuckerberg said. |
| Earlier in September, Facebook said it had discovered some 3,000 ads purchased between June 2015 and May 2017, connected to 470 “inauthentic” accounts and pages, which might have been related Russia's alleged meddling. | Earlier in September, Facebook said it had discovered some 3,000 ads purchased between June 2015 and May 2017, connected to 470 “inauthentic” accounts and pages, which might have been related Russia's alleged meddling. |
| However, the company did not directly accuse Russia and admitted that the “vast majority of ads run by these accounts” had nothing to do with the election, voting, or a particular candidate. | However, the company did not directly accuse Russia and admitted that the “vast majority of ads run by these accounts” had nothing to do with the election, voting, or a particular candidate. |
| The US has been struggling credibly to accuse Moscow of meddling in the 2016 presidential election – a claim that Russia has strongly denied. No evidence of Russia’s alleged hacking of the US elections has been presented. | |
| "The Russians interfered in our election…it is the high-confidence judgment of the entire intelligence community...,” former FBI director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee in June. However, neither he nor special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign produced any evidence to support the assertion. | |
| “The ex-FBI director said that he believes that there was Russian meddling in the electoral process [in the US], but at the same time provided no proof of that,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in June. | |
| READ MORE: Google says it found no trace of Russia’s interference in US election on its ad platforms | |
| Another giant Internet company, Google, said earlier in September that it had failed to unearth any facts that would implicate Moscow in exploiting advertising to manipulate the election. |