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\nAn anonymous political campaign on Facebook has reached nearly 10 million voters, asking them via advertisements to oppose British Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s Brexit deal, the media reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n
According to The Guardian, it was discovered by the digital campaign group 89up, which shared the details with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport\u2019s panel into fake news.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn adverts micro-targeted to individual constituencies, voters are exhorted to tell your local MP to bin Chequers,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n
All that is known about the campaign is what can be found on its website, Twitter and Facebook accounts.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing by the name Mainstream Network, the group writes and publishes news stories on its website with an almost exclusively pro-Brexit slant, shared on its social media accounts,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the last couple of weeks, I received a flood of about 50 emails – some quite abusive – urging me to \u2018chuck Chequers\u2019 and vote for out-and-out Brexit,\u201d Labour MP Paul Farrelly was quoted as saying The news comes at a time when Facebook is reeling under a couple of massive data breaches including the Cambridge Analytica scandal that impacted 87 million users earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Facebook says it has set a goal of bringing a transparency feature for political ads now available in the US and Brazil to the UK and India by March 2019.<\/p>\n
With the new ad architecture in place, people would be able to see who paid for a particular political ad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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