September has been a terrible month for Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) as the brand has been dragged through the mud on two separate scandals.
First, the social network was found to have allowed inauthentic Russian ads on its website that tried to influence voters during the presidential campaign. Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had vigorously denied that its website had been infiltrated, but an internal investigation revealed that about $100,000 had been spent on about 3,000 ads posing to be from activists, but that were really from Russian sources.