>The Trump campaign spent £44 million on Facebook ads alone
>during 2016, posting almost six million different versions of
>highly targeted messages that were pumped directly into the
>feeds of target voters across America, helped by a Facebook
>employee embedded within the Trump campaign.
>
>But many of the ads were so called ‘dark posts’, which
>could vanish from recipients’ feeds once a campaign stopped
>paying for them.
>
>It means no complete public record exists of the ads posted on
>Facebook during the 2016 campaign or the audience lists used
>to target voters. The platform offered no ‘Ad Library’ at
>the time.
>
>Without Facebook or the campaign itself revealing the
>information, it means it’s not possible to ascertain exactly
>how potential voters in the ‘Deterrence’ group may have
>been targeted on Facebook.

Good lord, this sounds so damn shady.