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  An MP candidate has spent thousands of pounds posting more Facebook advertisements than any other Scottish election hopeful this year – including a fake AI image spreading an anti-immigration message.
Tommy Macpherson, PICTURED LEFT, an independent standing in Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber, which includes Helensburgh all the way north to Oban, has posted 197 ads – more than one per day since the start of 2024. Paid ads included posts claiming terrorists and criminals were crossing UK borders, and an AI-generated image of radicalised Palestinian men. Our research, assisted by the ad library of Meta, which owns Facebook, shows that Macpherson spent between £0 and £99 on each ad in the period from 1 January to 23 June 2024. Macpherson told The Ferret he had spent £2,300 on social media campaigning.
The whole exclusive story is on today’s issue of The Ferret investigative news platform on the web
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