Proposed Legislation Makes Some Online Political Ads More Transparent, but It Doesn't Cover Many Gray Areas

The bill targets spending on Facebook, Google and Twitter

While “follow the money” has been a phrase associated with politics since the Richard Nixon era, newly proposed bipartisan legislation targeting online political spending could make it easier to trace the money in the digital era.

On Thursday, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, and Mark Warner, D-Virginia, introduced a bill that would make political ads on platforms such as Facebook and Google transparent like those on TV and radio stations. The Honest Ads Act, co-sponsored by Sen.

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