Quartz 's election committee has said that Facebook was in violation of a 1977 law requiring public records to be kept about who pays for political ads, according to local paper Facebook . The legislation says publishers of ads must be transparent about the "exact nature and extent of the advertising services rendered". the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission said it supplied the required data, but Barrett , executive director of The Stranger and Reuters , said the two -page PDF "doesn’t come close to meeting their public obligation".
Seattle's election committee has said that Facebook was in violation of a 1977 law requiring public records to be kept about who pays for political ads, according to local paper The Stranger and Reuters. The legislation says publishers of ads must be transparent about the "exact nature and extent of the advertising services rendered". Facebook said it supplied the required data, but Wayne Barrett, executive director of the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, said the two-page PDF "doesn’t come close to meeting their public obligation".