Lawmakers unveil bill to thwart Russian election ads on social media.
Tech companies may soon have to work with lawmakers on the ‘ad-disclosure bill’. This is in a bid to make it harder for Russia to secretly interfere with future U.S. elections, ‘by forcing social media companies to disclose the buyers of political ads’. Major online platforms such as Facebook and Google would have to keep records of people who even attempted to buy a political advertisement, the advertisement itself and how many people viewed it online. "We understand that el