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25 October 2018updated 01 Jul 2021 12:14pm

We don’t know who just spent £250k on pro-Brexit Facebook ads – that should worry us all

The company’s decision to be more open about political advertising looks welcome. But it is, in reality, window-dressing which is destined to fail.

By Ian Lucas

The story of an opaque website which has spent over £250,000 on Facebook advertising in the last year in order to promote its pro-Brexit, anti-Chequers agenda exposes the inadequacy of the social netwook’s promises to clean up its act.

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