Sen. Warner: Russians Paid Facebook $150,000 Worth of Ads in Rubles

RUSH EXCERPT:
WARNER: "Well, Chris, as far back as last winter, we raised concerns that the Russians were using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to both advertise, to create fake accounts, to try to drive stories. We've increasingly seen them try to drive people out to rallies and other events. Facebook at first -- and this is fairly disappointing -- kind of blew off those notions and said that really wasn't happening. We now know for a fact that it has been happening and what we want to make sure is that Facebook is fully transparent, that they've done a thorough review looking backwards of what all happened, how many accounts that were fake, affected by Russia, how much of the ads, what they've reported so far is 100 and $150,000 worth of ads. Those were only ads that were paid for in rubles so the Russian spy services know how to hide a little better than just using rubles."