CONCERNS have been raised that “dark money” is being used to fund adverts for Unionist Facebook groups, an investigation by The Ferret and The Free Press for today’s Sunday National has found.
A UK Government adviser and a senior figure at the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) think tank is among the figures behind the funding, along with two men who campaigned against Jeremy Corbyn through social media groups and who are now targeting the SNP.
The SNP described the Tories and dark money as “familiar partners”.
So-called dark money is funding raised for political campaigning through non-profit organisations that do not have to provide the identity of the source of those funds.