Facebook Says Russian Accounts Bought US Political Ads

Company finds fraudulent accounts spent $100,000 on ads during 2016 election cycle.

Facebook announced Wednesday that an operation out of Russia spent an estimated $100,000 on political advertising on the platform in the United States during the 2016 presidential election.

Facebook said that the money was spent on roughly 3,000 ads that ran between June of 2015 and May of this year. The ads were purchased by a collective of some 470 accounts and pages that used falsified identification information. Facebook said that these accounts and pages all seem to be connected to each other and likely were led by an operation out of Russia.

Goodbye forever to 'Candy Crush' invites on Facebook

New York: Already fed up of annoying app and game invites from friends on Facebook? There is some good news for you. You can now block all such irritating requests and reminders.
And that's just a click of a few buttons away now, so let's get started.
Invitations to install apps or join games are the number one most frustrating feature of Facebook. You could be bombarded with invites on a daily basis, and most apps make it quite easy to spam an entire friends list with annoying alerts.
Now you can put a lid on this nightmare.
Open your Settings screen on the Facebook Web client and click on the "Blocking" tab on the left sidebar.
Under the heading "Block App Invites", type the name of the person on your friends list who has been pestering you for long enough now with unwarranted invites. It's done!
You can use this same page to block specific apps from contacting you entirely, and even prevent your friends from sending you event invitations.

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