# Professor Vasant Dhar explains why social media platforms need to vet their advertising customers

1 Faculty News March 19, 2018 ![Vox logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/vox%20192%20x%20144.jpg?itok=ZSNFzKfo)>

Excerpt from [Vox](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/19/17038130/facebook-twitter-russia-regulations-laws) -- "'They should know who’s paying them,' said [Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar), a professor of information systems at New York University, 'because the consequences are very serious.'"

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