Nearly two-thirds of organisations that advertised during the referendum campaign were unregulated. Analysis by the Transparent Referendum Initiative found that online advertising has been used extensively in the past few months even after Google and Facebook tried to clamp down on it. "In many cases that bidder remains unknown and can get around the attempts by the likes of Facebook and Google to self-regulate." Elsewhere, questions are being asked about the influence foreign financial interests have had on the abortion campaign. He said: "Make sure the financial influence doesn't corrupt our politics which is absolutely essential but at the same time, allow different voices to have a voice in our society."

Source: Evening echo May 24, 2018 12:22 UTC