Britain's Future and We Are The 52% have spent heavily on Facebook ads. Now senior MP Damian Collins has told BuzzFeed News that a new sub-committee investigating disinformation will look into their activity.
, the committee expressed concern that a digital campaign like Mainstream Network could be allowed to influence political debate anonymously.
Since October, Facebook has taken steps to make political ads more transparent. All political ads that run in the UK are now kept in a database that can be searched by members of the public and journalists, and the ads carry the name of the organisation that placed them. Spending data is published every week. However, critics say this doesn’t allow voters to identify who is ultimately behind a campaign if the campaign chooses not to be transparent.
In Parliament on Tuesday, Collins said: “We saw during the course of our inquiry… political campaigns like the shadowy Mainstream Network which was advertising on Facebook seeking to get members of the public to lobby their MPs on what they should or shouldn’t do on Brexit. There are other organisations like We Are The 52% and Britain’s Future doing that right now. We may want to call in people like that in the future as part of investigations.
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