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Lawfare Archive: Nate Persily and Alex Stamos on Securing American Elections

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The Honest Ads Act and the Russian Intervention

Alex Castellanos: If $100,000 in Facebook ads was enough to swing a national election, then we've had a lot of political consultants that have not been behaving so smartly over time. He says the campaign is emblematic of how open and notorious the Russian intervention was. The fact that they paid for some of these ads in rubles is not an accident, he adds. But most of those ads are legal; 80% didn't mention a candidate., Castellanos writes.

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