BILLINGS — As Election Day nears, experts say political advertisements are flooding social media feeds and competing for voters’ attention.
Montana State University Billings political science professor Paul Pope says many of those ads are funded through political action committees (PACs), organizations independent from campaigns that pool money from individuals, corporations, unions and other groups and spend it on political ads and mailers.
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