Facebook criticized after Bashar al-Assad ‘sponsored’ election posts - The Washington Post
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The upcoming Syrian elections have been dismissed as a “farce” and a “parody of democracy” by opposition leaders, but that doesn’t mean Bashar al-Assad isn’t taking it seriously. And he has one useful tool in his arsenal: Facebook.
On Monday, The Syria Campaign launched a website that took the American social network to task for allegedly taking money from the Assad campaign for sponsored posts.