Hasta La Creative!

The question in the headline above appears near the end of the latest column from Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan. In the very next sentence she answers her own question: “Although there is a long list of reasons for his win, there’s increasing reason to believe the answer is no.”

Sullivan’s must-read piece, titled “Facebook’s role in Trump’s win is clear. No matter what Mark Zuckerberg says,” slams the social network for downplaying its overall influence and specifically its role in disseminating false information during the presidential campaign. That sort of dodging suddenly got a lot harder this week with the news that, as the Post headlined it, “Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election.” Per the story by Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman,

Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that the social network has discovered that it sold ads during the U.S. presidential campaign to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings. Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said.

Continue reading at AdAge.com