Andrei Rusu

Profiting from Propaganda: How Meta Benefits from Pro-Kremlin Election Meddling Ads in Moldova

Co-published with WatchDog.md: a pro-Kremlin campaign paid Meta about EUR 300,000 over 18 months, nearly a quarter of Moldova's political ad spend since August 2020, running 150+ inauthentic pages with disinformation and deepfakes ahead of Moldova's elections while Meta failed to dismantle the network.