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1/So remember when we found out Facebook sold pro-Trump political ads to a Russian company during the 2016 election? washingtonpost.com/politics/faceb…
2/ There is a larger issue beyond just Facebook's walled garden: the lack of transparency about political money spent online.
3/ If ads appear on TV, radio or in newspapers, journalists and advocacy groups would fact-check them.
Not so on Facebook.
Not so on Facebook.
4/ What happens on Facebook stays on Facebook. And if an advertiser micro-targets a group, it’s unlikely that anyone else will see those ads 
5/ We’d like to change that – and you can help! We're launching a crowdsourcing tool to gather political ads on FB: propub.li/2wLOUVg
6/ Install our Chrome extension and you’ll see political ads you wouldn’t normally see: chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…
7/You’ll also fuel our reporting. And transparency all around.💡
8/ We’re calling it the Political Ad Collector — or PAC, in a nod to the Political Action Committees that fund many of today’s political ads
9/ We’re launching this project with @tagesschau, @Sz and @Spiegelonline, ahead of the German parliamentary election on September 24…
10/…and next year, we’d like to learn as much as we can about Facebook advertising during the U.S. midterms.
