Last modified on Fri 11 Jun 2021 06.01 EDT
A digital marketing firm closely linked to the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA was responsible for a series of deceptive Facebook ads promoting Green party candidates during the 2018 US midterm elections, the Guardian can reveal.
In an apparent attempt to split the Democratic vote in a number of close races, the ads purported to come from an organization called America Progress Now (APN) and used socialist memes and rhetoric to urge leftwing voters to support Green party candidates.
Facebook was aware of the true identity of the advertiser – the conservative marketing firm Rally Forge – and the deceptive nature of the ads, documents seen by the Guardian show, but the company determined that they did not violate its policies.
Good morning. Boris Johnson hailed the UK’s “indestructible relationship” with the US as the G7 Summit officially kicked off on Friday. The British prime minister is known not to be a fan of the phrase “special relationship” – which he believes makes the UK look weak – but in an interview after meeting Joe Biden in Carbis Bay, Cornwall on Thursday he tried to underline the nations’ closeness, despite the president’s concerns over Northern.