Democratic Senators Want to Know Why Facebook Is Running Fake Political Ads

Less than a week before the midterms, Facebook has come under fire for huge loopholes in a feature that is supposed to require political advertisers to disclose the source of their ads. Multiple media outlets have reported that it is possible to post ads under false or misleading identities, raising red flags about Facebook’s ad transparency leading up to the election. And now Democratic senators are going after the company, pushing Facebook to explain how it plans to solve the problem. From Mother Jones.