Facebook launches disclaimers on political ads showing who bought them

After controversy over Russian ads targeting US election, company creates searchable archive of political advertisingSix months after acknowledging it had run advertisements purchased by a Russian influence operation during the 2016 US presidential campaign, Facebook launched new political ad labels in the US disclosing who paid for them.Also starting Thursday on Facebook and Instagram, users will be able to search an archive of election and political issue ads in the US for all the political ad