Russia-Linked Facebook Ads Targeted a Sketchy Chrome Extension at Teen Girls

Published: May 15, 2018, 7:59 a.m.

Earlier this week, the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released roughly 3,500 Facebook and Instagram ads purchased by the Internet Research Agency, a notorious Russian troll farm. Among them: Ads purchased in May of 2016 that promoted a suspicious Chrome extension that gained wide access to the Facebook accounts and web browsing behavior of those who installed it.