The Washington attorney general is suing Google and Facebook for its lack of transparency on political advertising. Washington has clear laws requiring companies to reveal who pays for political ads and how much they spend. Washington said the companies have not filed the information since 2013. (Financial Express, June 5, 2018, by Agence France-Presse)
With the Russian interference in the 2016 election, Google and Facebook are enacting new procedures. Facebook is providing the public with a searchable archive of political ads, and Google said recently it would verify the identity of political ad buyers by asking for a government-issued ID. They are also ascertaining who is actually paying for the ads. (Q13Fox, June 5, 2018, by The Associated Press)