[Brian Griffin]

(B) The term ‘‘expenditure’’ does not include—
(i) any news story, commentary, or editorial
distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting
station, newspaper, magazine, or other
periodical publication, unless such facilities
are owned or controlled by any political party,
political committee, or candidate;

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2015-title52/pdf/USCODE-2015-title52-subtitleIII.pdf

[piasa]

(B) The term ‘‘expenditure’’ does not include— (i) any news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, unless such facilities are owned or controlled by any political party, political committee, or candidate; https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2015-title52/pdf/USCODE-2015-title52-subtitleIII.pdf

Well, at least they won't be able to pin campaign violations on the Russians' use of social media ...