OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party ran a series of fundraising ads targeting American and U.K. audiences on Facebook despite it being illegal to accept donations from foreign citizens. The party used its official Facebook account, as well as Trudeau’s, to solicit donations from the U.S. and U.K. for a week in March — advertising party official Braeden Caley says was an error. It is heavily used by both the Liberal party and the Conservative party in Canada. Canadian political parties are increasingly turning to Facebook to blast out their partisan messaging. Google, Facebook’s main competitor in the advertising business, opted to refuse Canadian political advertising in the run up to the election.

Source: thestar June 07, 2019 17:15 UTC