The National Bail Industry Is Funding Misleading Facebook Ads To Fight Bail Reform Movement, Advocates Say

BY GEORGE JOSEPH
Gothamist

The national bail industry is bankrolling a Facebook campaign against New York state’s new bail reform law. From December through this month, the American Bail Coalition, which represents bail bonds insurers, has spent around $8,000 on promotional posts that have generated between 965,000 and 1.1 million impressions in New York state alone. The industry group has also spent thousands more on Facebook ads across the country, a small fraction of which have generated impressions in New York.
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