FEC Pushes Tech Giants for Comment

Federal Election Commission member Ellen Weintraub issued personal requests to Facebook, Google and Twitter to submit a comment aimed at helping inform a rulemaking the FEC is doing on internet ad disclosures. Commissioner Weintraub notes the urgency, since the comment deadline is Nov 9. “I am … interested in hearing from Facebook whether, given subsequent developments, the company’s position on this proposed rulemaking has changed since its November 14, 2011 comment to the FEC,” she wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “I was encouraged to hear you say in your September 21, 2017 video that Facebook will ‘expand its partnerships with election commissions around the world.’ In light of recent events, I hope you will start at home.”