Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is once again going after Facebook for violating the state’s campaign finance law.
Ferguson filed a similar suit against the social network in June 2018, and it was resolved that December, when Facebook paid a $200,000 penalty and $38,000 to reimburse the state’s legal costs and fees.
According to Ferguson’s office, even though Facebook decided on its own at the end of 2018 to stop accepting ads related to state or local elected officials, candidates, elections or ballot initiatives, this has not been the case.
Ferguson cited reports by blog The Stranger and The Seattle Times that Facebook has continued to sell ads to political committees in the state.
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