A staff member arranges a display showing a social media post during a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., in November. The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee berated lawyers for social media giants Facebook, Twitter and Google for a lethargic response to Russian interference in U.S. politics. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
ALBANY — Amid federal inaction on Russian interference in U.S. elections, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic-dominated state Assembly said Wednesday they plan to push a new law to require social media companies to disclose who is paying for their political ads.
The proposal, included in the governor’s executive budget proposal unveiled in mid-January, would require all political communications—including print, digital, visual or auditory—to state who paid for the advertisements. The so-called Democracy Protection Act also would require online platforms, such as social media sites, to archive political ads and “protect state elections from foreign influence.”
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