Google: No Trace of Russia’s Interference in US Election on Ad Platforms

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Google said it has failed to unearth any facts that would implicate Moscow in exploiting its advertising tools to manipulate the US elections.

This comes after Facebook said it had found dozens of Russia-linked fake pages promoting divisive US-related issues.

"We're always monitoring for abuse or violations of our policies and we've seen no evidence this type of ad campaign was run on our platforms," Google said in a statement Thursday, as cited by Reuters.

The search engine giant was asked to comment on the issue in wake of the allegations shared by Facebook, its fellow online advertiser, a day earlier.

In its report Wednesday, Facebook appeared to link Moscow to some 3,000 political ads run by 470 "inauthentic" accounts between June 2015 and May 2017 that touched on US topics ranging from gun right to LGBT rights and immigration. The only grounds given for the claim was that the pages were "affiliated with one another and likely operated out of Russia."

While Facebook noted that the most part of the said advertisements did not promote any candidate or even did not include any specific reference to the US presidential campaign, some of the US lawmakers have already jumped to conclusions.

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